Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theatre. A photograph of the oldest Amerecan playbill, printed in 1750, showed how far ahead of Puritanic Boston was New York, since the first Boston theatre, the Federal, dates back to 1794. A copy of the Ford Theatre program for April 14, 1865, was a sharp reminder of Lincoln's assassination...
...Passed a bill authorizing the erection of a $15,000,000 bridge across the Potomac from the Lincoln Memorial to Arlington. (Went to the President...
Died. Addison G. Proctor, 87, "only 7 surviving delegate to the Convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln Republican candidate for President in 1860;" in Chicago, of exhaustion following speeches which he made on and before Lincoln's birthday...
...went without recognition until, in London, the Duchess of Manchester lauded his statues and water-colors of the American Indians. He harnessed fame to his able statues of wild horses, won the gold medal in the St. Louis Exhibition of 1903, completed a statue of Lincoln (now in Newark, N. J.) of which the late Colonel Roosevelt passed the equivocal criticism: ''Why, this doesn't look like a monument at all." Always he has been active in public affairs: he helped the farmers of the Northwest when they cried for better prices, he investigated, at the request...
...successful contestants in the preliminary competition for the Pasteur Debate were announced yesterday by the judges, Mr. J. N. Lincoln. Tutor in the Division of Modern Languages, and Mr. J. J. Penny, Instructor in French. They are; J. R. Creel '27, A. G. King '26, W. D. Morton '27, E. C. Sibley '28, George Staff '26 and J. R. Smith...