Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews, in charge of prohibition enforcement, proposed a non-partisan investigation of the results of prohibition. Secretary Mellon opposed this, saying that the findings would only produce bitterness and not yield any other tangible result...
...Shepton Mallet jail, Somerset, England, a hangman's noose tightened, last week, and snapped out the life of John Lincoln, a British soldier, who last Christmas Eve murdered a certain traveling salesman whose house he was attempting to rob. Some 50,000 English humanitarians signed a petition that the execution be delayed for a few days until the condemned man's father might arrive from Ceylon. The petition was denied. John Lincoln's father is the notorious Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln, in 1910 a Liberal M. P. for Darlington, during the War an international spy for both England and Germany...
Trebitsch-Lincoln. In the private files of European chefs d' espionnage, "Trebitsch-Lincoln" is listed under literally dozens of aliases, among which his original name is completely lost. It has been said of him that the world is his plaything. Certainly his attitude toward creeds and laws was that of a versatile bad boy playing with what toys he could misuse. His book, Revelations of an International Spy (McBride, 1916), was described by an amused U. S. diplomatist as "a spitball of wastepaper and spleen spat at his former European employers"; others professed to take seriously his arraignment...
...what two nations did Spy Lincoln function during...
...BOOTH AND THE SPIRIT OF LINCOLN?Bernie Babcock?Lippincott ($2). *Dr. Collins' error. One thousand generations equals 33,000 years. Homer lived about...