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Last week Springfield's Midday Luncheon Club and Governor Henry Homer of Illinois decided to do an extraordinary honor to the memory of Springfield's greatest citizen, Abraham Lincoln. To Governor Horner's mansion for dinner went a distinguished gathering including Secretary Ickes and Governor Talmadge. They met, shook hands, turned away. Af- terward the members and guests of the Midday Luncheon Club assembled in a high-school auditorium for a special treat. On the platform, a handsome lectern bore a large portrait of Lincoln. Out to the speakers' seats marched Governor Horner, Secretary Ickes, Governor...
Secretary Ickes then took his turn at the lectern, drew his moral from the text of Lincoln's life. Said he: "It appears to have been Abraham Lincoln who scuttled the American Constitution, set up a dictatorship, threw the Supreme Court into the Potomac River and declared a moratorium on Congress. In fact, General George B. McClellan ran against him for President in 1864 on a 'Save-the-Constitution' platform...
...nothing to do about it but we can complain about the treatment given to the rest of the cast. John Boles can sing but we were offered the pipings of the cute one instead and even the worst of the history debunkers would shudder at the insipid portrayal of Abraham Lincoln. It is about time that petty actors stopped trying to take the part of the world's greatest...
...National Academy of Design, studied painting with Frenchman named Frederic Rondel, to whom he went every Saturday night for a month to learn how to lay out a palette. ' his brushes. In 1861 Harper's Weekly him to Washington to make drawings the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, r sent him on the Peninsular Campaign to make war sketches. Harper's readers soon began to look forward to the weekly drawings of loafing sentries, mule skinners, sutlers, cannoneers, "from our special correspondent at the front...
...going back to university work." This was something of a gamble, but he landed a research fellowship at Cambridge under Lord Rutherford. He was appointed head of the physics department at Washington University (St. Louis), went from there to Chicago at the invitation of the late, great Albert Abraham Michelson...