Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...post at London as well as being the most important has also the greatest historical interest, for it has been occupied by James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Washington Irving, Martin Van Buren, James Buchanan, Charles Francis Adams, James Russell Lowell and, in more recent years, by Robert Todd Lincoln, Thomas F. Bayard, John Hay, Joseph H. Choate, Whitelaw Reid, Walter Hines Page, John W. Davis. Now a successor to these men must be chosen, as well as an Ambassador to Rome...
...chooses as Ambassadors, but it is presumed that political considerations will not be entirely lacking. It is understood that the President would like to name a Westerner to London, since only three such have ever held the post, Robert C. Shenck of Ohio, Robert T. Lincoln of Illinois, John Hay of Ohio...
...Greatness. " This nation has not seen so great a man since Lincoln died." (A. Brisbane...
...University graduated a grandmother aged 71 and Kansas University graduated a man of 81 at its last commencement. . . . The three R's are comparatively easy subjects for the adult mind and none are too old to grasp them. . . . " If there should be one Booker T. Washington, Edison or Lincoln among them, although it cost $20,000,000 to bring him out, it would be well worth the price...
Sued for divorce. John Drinkwater, poet and playwright (author of Abraham Lincoln, Mary Stuart. Oliver Cromwell, Robert E. Lee, editor of The Outline of Literature), by Mrs. Kathleen Walpole Drinkwater, former actress. Charges not stated. The case is not defended...