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...Francisco's Superior Court last week Charlotte Anita Whitney, 68-year-old daughter of a onetime State Senator and niece of a U. S. Supreme Court Justice appointed by Abraham Lincoln, was convicted of "false swearing" to signatures on Communist petitions for a place on the ballot, faced a possible sentence of six years in prison...
...etchings, especially in the trees and clouds. It is perhaps due to this experience in nature that he succeeded in putting so much life into his biblical representations. Instead of following the old tradition of showing a pale saint gazing lifelessly towards Heaven, he has chosen subjects such as "Abraham Entertaining the Three Angels," "Christ Driving Out Money Changers from the Temple," and "Christ Healing the Sick." The last is also known as the "Hundred Guilder Print" because it sold soon for one hundred guilders, and was the first of his works to bring success to his apparently unrewarded life...
Next Billy Sunday asked to see Abraham and his boys. Abraham introduced him to Isaac...
...tactfully suggested, but public opinion has been quite definitely on the other side. One would, of course, like to think that the appointment is a case of "post hoc sed non propter hoc," and this thesis is just about as sincere as Mussolini's recent self-appointment as the Abraham Lincoln of the dark continent...
...Louisiana's Longsters, depressed since their leader's assassination, life once more seemed good last week. In New Orleans' Federal District Court a jury had just pronounced the late Senator's crony. Abraham Lazard Shushan, not guilty of dodging Federal income taxes (TIME, Oct. 21). Happy "Abe" Shushan, who, a few hours before, had been sobbing brokenly as his attorney pleaded for his wife & children, glimpsed three news photographers snapping their cameras...