Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This historic message was sent off quietly by the Secretary of State from his hotel in Paris, was received and read by the President at a small gathering of Pennsylvania Republicans in Gettysburg. Next day the President decided to hold a special Cabinet meeting to hear Dulles' report. With an election a week away, the Paris achievement could have been given a lot of sizzle. It deserved better treatment: it could have been the peg for an immediate, politically potent radio-television report to the people...
...first heady days of independence, Indonesia's rallying cry was Merdeka (freedom). Posters quoted the American Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address; President Soekarno compared Indonesia's freedom struggle to the American Revolution. Women proclaimed their equality and demanded emancipation: they organized women's clubs to fight the law allowing Moslem men four wives. Soekarno, the slender and handsome father of his country, seemed the embodiment of the new enlightenment and women sighed mistily when he spoke, which was often. They called him Mr. Merdeka...
...Providence I ... met quite a number of veterans of the Battle of Gettysburg and always figured that their story was very exaggerated. After reading your story, with its descriptive . . . cyclorama . . . I have a very guilty feeling for ever having doubted their stories. I now can understand, 40 years too late, why they had reason to be so proud of their Rhode Island Red Hot Artillery...
Congratulations to you on your magnificent article in connection with the great Yankee victory at Gettysburg [TIME, July...
...cyclorama on the following pages, representing the climax of Pickett's charge, is housed in a special building at the Gettysburg battlefield. Painted in 1881 by French Artist Paul Dominique Philippoteaux, it is 30 ft. high and 370 ft. in circumference. The view is from behind the Union front line, and as the viewer looks along the painting toward the right, it is as though he is turning from north to east, then toward the south and finally west...