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Queen Victoria's Government (Prime Minister: Lord Palmerston) was so incensed that, besides a hot note to President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, it sent 8,000 picked troops to Canada, got its Navy ready. England raged and ranted about dismembering the upstart Republic. New York City feted Captain Wilkes and Northern hotheads boasted that the Union would give Britain some of the medicine it was about to give the South. Abraham Lincoln kept mum, for weeks. Eventually he had Secretary of State Seward discover that, while Captain Wilkes was within international law in arresting the Trent, he went beyond...
Three of Don Tinto's Cabinet Ministers who are loyal to the Popular Front have been involved in recent scandals. An investigating committee found fraud in the entry of Jewish refugees and held Abraham Ortega's Ministry of Foreign Affairs responsible. Arturo Olavarria's Ministry of Agriculture let an Agricultural Export Board buy race-track stock for the purpose of improving animal husbandry. And Minister of Education Rudecindo Ortega got himself mixed up in a row between Radicals and Socialists at a professors-&-teachers convention last month. These scandals gave Radical Leader Durán his opportunity...
Coming-of-Age. Other ironhanded Presidents saw red in the rising sun of the Court. Andrew Jackson was one. "John Marshall has made his decision," he bellowed when the Court made Indians Government wards, "now let him enforce it!" Abraham Lincoln, whose election was due in no small part to Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's pro-slavery decision against old Dred Scott, ordered an Army fort commander to ignore a writ of habeas corpus issued by Chief Justice Taney. U. S. Grant packed the Court, got a 4-3 unfavorable decision reversed...
...lady in Eugene, Ore., where much of the film was shot, does not agree. Because black-bearded Abraham Lincoln once dandled her as a child on his knee, she was introduced to clean-shaven Actor Massey, but she angrily refused to sit on Massey's knee for RKO's publicity department. Reason: a clean-shaven Lincoln is a monstrosity. "Why don't you let him play the part?" she shrilled, pointing to a black-bearded extra. "He could do it better than the man you have...
...Taft would be perfectly at home in the White House. No U. S. family has been so familiar with the Executive Mansion as the Tafts. Grandfather Alfonso first went there in Abraham Lincoln's time, saw much of it as War Secretary and Attorney General under President U. S. Grant; Grandfather Herron was a classmate of President Benjamin Harrison, was also intimate with President Rutherford B. Hayes. Grandmother Herron, a friend of Mrs. Hayes, stayed at the White House many weeks. And from 1901, when President Theodore Roosevelt moved in, to 1913, when Father William Howard moved...