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...Abraham Lincoln which has bred gossip of kinship between the two. Such report is based largely on the fact that Lincoln and Davis were born eight months apart, within 100 miles of each other in Kentucky. Dr. William Eleazar Barton, foremost Lincoln scholar, has flayed such gossip as baseless and untrue...
...quantity production of Napoleons and Lees, it can and does produce competent officers of high professional spirit. I went on to say that even what he called "mere technical knowledge" goes a long way in forming successful character. It is basic for judgment; it enhances courage by dispelling baseless fears. If you will define and analyze "gumption," you will find that knowledge and training play their part in it. Indeed, the honest search for knowledge is a cardinal virtue and a builder of character. One of the most constructive minds I know in business calls it the First Commandment...
...Senator of the United States or an agency of the government of the United States has no right to injure my reputation or my business by making or publishing reckless and baseless charges affecting me and my business integrity...
...strait-jacket for European finance. The dread lest a controlling interest in the new Bank should be vested in Wall Street would not down, last week, even when Mr. Thomas W. Lamont of No. 23 Wall Street (The House of Morgan) solemnly assured correspondents that such fears are baseless...
...quick to charge that because a newspaper in which he is largely interested, Le Quotidien, had made a joint circulation drive with La Gazette du Franc, he must have been at least privy to the swindle. Incomplete investigation seemed to show that this slur upon the Cognac Tycoon was baseless...