Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...witness was Miss Savidge's father. He established that he has been "a confidential clerk to a firm of accountants in Lincoln's Inn Fields for 21 years," and explained that both he and Mrs. Savidge have known from the first of their 22-year-old daughter's occasional dinners and excursions with Sir Leo Chiozza Money, 58, married...
...vocal disposal of a man long confined to the indirect, often anonymous, medium of the scrivener. Mr. Bowers made it a point to have his place on the program shifted to an evening hour, when more radios would be turned on. The Bowers speech began with contrasts between Abraham Lincoln and Harry Ford Sinclair and between the political schools of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamiltion. Next, the eight-year Wilson regime was lauded. Then the eight-year Harding-Coolidge regime was condemned, with the emphasis on the Harding days. Avoiding statements of fact, Mr. Bowers pumped his breath into alliterative...
...Republicans had quoted George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and said: "The people through the method provided by the Constitution have written the Eighteenth Amendment into the Constitution. The Republican Party pledges itself and its nominees to the observance and vigorous enforcement...
...standards of civilized society. The progression is from fists to bombs, to pistols, or to machine guns." The Murphy murder quickly reverberated in Brooklyn, N. Y. Frank Uale, alias Yale, dressy gangster and racketeer, friend of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone of Chicago, was cruising comfortably in his shiny Lincoln sedan. Another car (with Illinois license plates) slid up behind. Four men opened fire at the back of Uale's head, then drew alongside and shot off the side of his face. The Lincoln careened off the street, through a hedge, against a brick stoop. The Illinois car vanished...
...Civil War when 21. 2) If England chooses to allow Major Putnam to vote, because he owns property and pays taxes there, that in no way invalidates his U. S. vote. 3) Major Putnam's first vote, at the age of 20, was cast for President Lincoln's reelection, but as Major Putnam was in Libby Prison at the time, his vote was not counted anyway...