Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boodlers, the demagogues and the little dictators so drunk with power that they even dare to shout infamously, "To hell with the constitution," I shall retire to the solitude of my home and I shall kneel before the pictures of George Washington, the founder of our Republic, Abraham Lincoln, the saviour of our Country, and Woodrow Wilson, who died a martyr to the ideal of making the whole world safe for democracy, and in joyous gratitude I shall thank the "author of liberty" that the Arkansas legislative monstrosity has at last expired. I shall pray devoutly that a blessing...
Lexington stands 950 feet above sea level in the Blue Grass country, famed for Bourbon whiskey, tobacco, horses, stock farms (Elmendorf Ashland). Near Lexington was born Abraham Lincoln. And once in Lexington a statue of Native Henry Clay was decapitated by a prankish thunderbolt...
...recent issues the revered Atlantic Monthly published three articles on the life of Abraham Lincoln by a Miss Wilma Frances Minor, based upon hitherto unknown Lincolniana in the possession of Miss Minor. The first article was met with a storm of criticism from Lincoln experts, who cried "Forgery!" after reading the documents quoted by Miss Minor. The second article brought still more protests fluttering to the desk of Editor Ellery Sedgwick. Editor Sedgwick, digesting the criticisms and keeping an open mind, published the third and last article. Most vehement among the critics of the Minor collection was Paul M. Angle...
Leaving the question of the authenticity of the Lincoln manuscript entirely out of consideration for the moment, the analysis goes into the fundamental characteristics exhibiting a remarkable likeness in each of the documents published in the Atlantic. The striking hypothesis completely undermines the already precarious position in which the alleged historical documents have been placed by prominent Western authorities among whom are Paul W. Angle, and Logan Hay of the Lincoln Centennial Association, Oliver R. Barrett of Chicago, Louis A. Warren, director of the Illinois Lincoln Foundation and N. Worthington C. Ford Hon. '07, secretary of the Massachusetts Historical Society...
Carrying research into mathematical computations of forty-two digits, the analysis finds little possibility of more than one hand having penned the various letters. And upon the investigation of a succeeding letter signed "W. F. Minor", fundamental characteristics identical with those exhibited in the professed Lincoln letters obviously indicate the supposition that the Atlant...