Word: abrahamisms
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When Mrs. Hahn and her children appeared on the show, one viewer in New Haven, Conn. refused to swallow any of it. Claiming that he had been separated from his wife for some four years, Abraham Hahn also said that he had refused the producers' invitation to take part in the show, choked up when he heard Edwards tell all America that the only reason Mother's husband was not on the show was that he had slightly injured his foot at his foreman's job (at West Haven's Technical Rubber Inc.). In extolling...
...show started off as if someone had switched the scripts, or at least the sourcebooks. Kennedy quoted Abraham Lincoln, and Nixon invoked the "Let's take a look at the record" maxim of Al Smith. Nixon, who has not built a reputation for this sort of thing, then went on to tell 70 million Americans that his opponent Jack Kennedy was sincere. So, of course, Nixon added, was Dick Nixon, although Kennedy, to give him credit, never committed himself on this point...
...Republican candidate should denounce the support of the political parsons with as much vigor and decision as that with which Abraham Lincoln disowned Know-Nothing support...
Never before had the workmen at Barillet's-the leading stained-glass studio of Paris-known anyone quite like the intense, wild-haired American artist who had come to them in 1958. Abraham Rattner, 65, was embarked on the most ambitious project of his life, and he seemed unable to tear himself away from it for a minute. He pored over Jewish holy books for inspiration, spent each day at Barillet's rejecting and selecting pieces of glass, watching every move the artisans made as they went about their centuries-old task. The result was worth the effort...
...trotted out the old nostalgia ("I follow here in 1960 the same trail Harry Truman took in 1948 when he came down this valley and carried California in the 1948 election"). At Sacramento, 5,000 massed in the station to hear Kennedy invoke the shade of a famous Republican: "Abraham Lincoln said, T know there is a God and he hates injustice. I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it. If he has a place and part for me, I am ready.' And I say in this campaign as the storm breaks around the great...