Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Carl Sandburg, poet and biographer of Lincoln, went to the oldest and third oldest universities in the U. S. to get honorary degrees. Harvard and Yale greeted him affectionately. Sandburg, wearing a gown but no cap, his white mane and rugged face gleaming in the sun, gave their commencements a flash of homely Americanism, a flash just bright enough to illumine the shadow of European affairs that all but blacked out their gay, traditional ceremonies...
Next day, in a brief speech, Carl Sandburg said sadly: "We could well pray that in some quarters of the country there would be less vehemence, less vanity of affairs, less discussion regarding what should immediately be done, and something more of the element of prayer and humility that was Lincoln's in the 'house divided' speech. If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could better judge what...
...Schwarze Korps recalled such German friends of the U.S. as Baron Frederick William Augustus Henry Ferdinand yon Steuben, who assisted in the Revolution as a topnotch troop-trainer (but who, the paper neglected to mention, had been persuaded to help the U. S. by a Frenchman); and General Carl Schurz, a pillar of the Republican Party in Lincoln's years (who incidentally had been exiled from Germany...
Over two months ago Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., makers of about 50% of all the military optical goods sold in the U. S., was indicted under the Federal antitrust laws because it had an old sales & patent agreement with the German firm of Carl Zeiss. The agreement, Government men hinted, prevented B. & L. from selling range finders, gun sights and other fire-control instruments to the Allies...
James Savage scholarship to Carl D. Sheppard Jr. 1G, of Akron, Ohio...