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...William Henry Harrison . .. Died in office 1860 Abraham Lincoln .... Assassinated 1880 James A. Garfield ....Assassinated 1900 William McKinley .... Assassinated 1920 Warren G.Harding . . . Died in office 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt . . . Died in office

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 25, 1960 | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

...Industries, Inc. (later reorganized under various names) raked in $19.5 million in donations under a fund-raising contract with the Sister Elizabeth Kenny Foundation. Of this $19.5 million, Empire kept $11.5 million for fees, commissions and expenses, turned over only $8,000,000 to the foundation. Boss of Empire: Abraham L. Koolish, presently under indictment in Chicago on a federal charge of mail fraud (raising funds for a phony charitable organization that was supposed to help disabled war veterans but never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHILANTHROPY: A Case of Self-Help | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

...place of Hindu in the treatises on yoga technique." Dechanet is also on guard against the danger that the practice of yoga turns him toward "the Self, the It, the Absolute, the Wholly-One, the vague 'Ungraspable' of Hindu mystics" instead of toward "the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the living God, my Creator and Father." What Dechanet set out to do when he first began to practice yoga in his early 40s was not to turn it into something Christian, but to use it for Christian purposes. His main Christian purpose: to harmonize the three elements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Christian as Yogi | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

Nixon: No, madam, it is not. Perhaps you were thinking of Abraham Lincoln. I was born in a manger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Impious Tales | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

...volubly answered questions hour after hour. As though bent on slow-motion suicide, the man charged with responsibility for the murder of 6,000,000 Jews was eager to tell all, often asked for pencil and paper to enlarge his replies. With evident satisfaction, Israel's Chief Investigator Abraham Selinger reported that the thin, flop-eared ex-Gestapo leader-who had proclaimed that he would kill himself if he were ever captured-was the most "cooperative" suspect he had ever interrogated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Justice on Trial | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

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