Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notice the President will take that there is a campaign afoot) on July 24, at 8 p. m., in Continental Memorial Hall (D. A. R. building) with radio attachments. Mr. Dawes would be notified at his home in Evanston on July 29 and would make his first speech in Lincoln, Neb., on Sept...
...only 60 years since Lincoln was President. In that brief period our country has enjoyed the greatest moral and material welfare in all history. This has been brought about largely under Republican rule...
...born, in Marietta, son of General Rufus R. Dawes commander of the Iron Brigade of Wisconsin. He worked his way through Marietta College as chief engineer of a small railroad in Ohio. He graduated from the Cincinnati Law School. Then he began to move ? law practice in Lincoln, Neb. ? presidency Lacrosse Gas Light & Coke Co. ? presidency Northwestern Gas Light & Coke Co. ? appointment (at 29) as Comptroller of the Currency under McKinley ? founding of the Central Trust Co. (Chicago) ? commission as Major in the engineers (1917) ? Pur chasing Agent...
...letter from the grave helps Jazz-Bo spring some Georgia camp meeting stuff on the Republican National Committee, and Henry Lincoln Johnson, who eased himself in as National Committeeman in 1920, walks off again with the prize cake. 'Can he strut . . . that's what he never does nothing else...
...weeks ago Duchess, an elephant presented by the late Mr. P. T. Barnum to the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, died of what newspapers reported to be an inflammation of the bowels caused by eating peanuts. It occurred to Dr. Antoine Kolodny of the University of Illinois College of Medicine to make a post-mortem examination. The body of the elephant, which weighed some 3,000 pounds, had been transferred for destruction to a plant in Gary, Ind. Arming himself with a pair of rubber hip-boots and a ten-inch butcher knife, Dr. Kolodny, accompanied by two students, went...