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Hyman George Rickover was born in 1900 in the small, predominantly Jewish village of Makowa, Russian Poland, where his father, Abraham Rickover, was a tailor. By 1904 father Abraham had saved 100 rubles (then $50) and managed to reach New York. In another two years of hard work, he saved enough to send for his family. Ruchal (Rose) Rickover and her two children, Fanny, 8, and Hyman, 6, made their way across Germany, sleeping in bleak dormitories provided by German Jews. When they saw their first ships at Antwerp, the future admiral, Hyman, burst into tears. "The boats were...
...good to the family of thankful refugees. A third child, Gitel (Augusta), was born in 1908. Two years later the Rickovers left Manhattan's seething East Side and moved to Chicago. Prosperous enough to avoid the slums, they settled in respectable Lawndale. They never went hungry again. Father Abraham always had work as a tailor. In 1919 he started a small garment factory, which he sold in 1946. Now he owns an apartment house on Chicago's North Side. Though 79 and comfortably fixed, he still plugs away as a tailor "to provide...
...Coaxing. The holidays at the White House got under way on Christmas Eve, in the East Room, when Ike and Mamie greeted 516 members of the staff, and presented each with a handsome folder containing a color reproduction of one of Ike's latest paintings: a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, copied from an 1863 photograph. Early Christmas morning, the President, with his wife and mother-in-law, left the gaily decked White House, drove through the silent, deserted streets of Washington, and flew off to Georgia for a family reunion. At Fort Benning they stopped briefly for a light...
...effective pleader for the Negro in the U.S. House of Representatives. Sumner, a master orator who succeeded Daniel Webster in the U.S. Senate, carried the Negro's banner there. They were the spiritual leaders of the "Radical Republicans," whose pro-Negro stand was far beyond that of Abraham Lincoln. In 1866, when President Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill to expand the Freedmen's Bureau (an agency to aid and educate former slaves), Stevens rose in the House and called the North Carolina-born President "an alien enemy, a citizen of a foreign state." In the Senate, Sumner cried...
...normally busy Lincoln and Civil War branches of the publishing industry almost ground to a halt, but two fine items more than saved the day for the specialists. One was nothing less than The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln in eight bulging volumes, which brought to a close a 29-year job of loving scholarship by the Abraham Lincoln Association. The other was A Stillness at Appomattox, the last of three lively volumes detailing the history of the Army of the Potomac. It was the job of a journalist, Bruce Catton, but no scholar had done it nearly so well...