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That Little Bag. The more talk there was of peanuts, the more northern big-city Democrats began to come unstuck from the 90%-for-$1.25 deal. Brooklyn Democrat Abraham Multer found himself right alongside Brooklyn Republican Francis Dorn in bewailing the high price of peanuts at Ebbets Field: "There are just about twelve peanuts in that little peanut bag for which you pay 10?" Georgia's Forrester replied: "I thought we had come to an understanding with you Brooklyn people that you would pay us 10? a bag for peanuts and we would continue...
...been nominated for the presidency. In 1916 Charles Evans Hughes, then an Associate Justice, accepted the G.O.P. nomination, was defeated by Woodrow Wilson, returned to the court in 1930 as Chief Justice. In 1872 Associate Justice David Davis, appointed to the court a decade earlier by his good friend Abraham Lincoln, accepted the Labor Reform Party's nomination, hoping that it would be a steppingstone to victory in the Liberal Republican convention. When the Liberal Republicans turned him down, Davis withdrew from the Labor nomination, did not resign from the court...
Kraft TV Theater looked into the case of Mary Surratt, hanged in 1865 for complicity in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and, like most historians, found her innocent. Doreen Lang captured believably the quality of a woman too pure-minded to know or guess at the plot that was hatched in her own house; the military court that condemned her to death had that toplofty disregard for the evidence that seems to identify all judges who hear cases with their minds already made...
Sundaram characterized the Formosan government as "an erstwhile symbol of a power that has run away to Formosa." "Chiang Kalshek he said "is not the Abraham Lincoln of China...
...spare time Mona collects great letters of famous writers (her favorites: Abraham Lincoln, Walter Hines Page), but is unable to keep up her own personal correspondence. Explains Mona: "I just can't bring myself to write personal letters...