Word: abrahams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE WAR YEARS - Carl Sandburg - Harcourt, Brace (4 vols...
...ABRAHAM LINCOLN-Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire - Doubleday, Doran...
Silent Shushan. What got the Item in trouble last week was a case that opened in Louisiana's Federal court against Abraham Lazard Shushan (who once backed Huey Long financially, in return got his name on New Orleans' palatial Shushan Airport) and four other defendants accused by the Government of using the mails to defraud. According to the grand jury's indictment, they shared a fee of $496,000 on a false claim that they had saved the Orleans Levee Board $2,000,000 in a bond-refunding operation...
Biography: Carl Van Doren's "Benjamin Franklin" is a scholarly yet decidedly reasonable account of our "first civilized American." as Charles Edward Russell once called him. . . . Of course, Carl Sandburg's "Abraham Lincoln: The War Years" is the biography of this or, apparently, any other year. A new edition of "The Pratrio Years" is now also available. . . . Henry Seidel Canby's "Thoreau" is a good, solid work on a great American writer. . . . Havelock Ellis' "My Life" is an undistinguished chronicle of a distinguish life. . . Henry F. Pringle makes "The Life and Times of William Howard Taft" a far more appealing...
Inside, Comrade Browder was in rare form. The U. S, Government's passport-fraud case against him, said he, is "as thin as homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death" (a quote from Abraham Lincoln). Mr. Browder promised to show during his trial that "many highly respected businessmen, jurists and statesmen" had traveled "under pseudonyms...