Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...women in the War. Chief Justice Taft presided. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson attended. . . . President Coolidge journeyed to Gettysburg, Pa., to deliver a Memorial Day speech. In charge of the train was one Grant Eckert, son of the later Conductor John Eckert who had charge of the train which took President Lincoln to Gettysburg in 1863. In his speech, President Coolidge called Abraham Lincoln "one of the greatest men ever in the world." Then he dipped into figures and said that the U. S. had given between six and seven billion dollars, in pensions and gratuities, to service men of the Civil...
Next he took up disarmament, obedience to law, world peace. He called Secretary of State Kellogg's multilateral treaty work "one of the most impressive peace movements that the world has ever seen." In closing he quoted Abraham Lincoln's phrases, "of the people, by the people, for the people" and suggested that efforts for war-prevention were the best tribute to dead soldiers...
...Details so small as extra caddies at the golf clubs and the time-saving elimination of soup from table d'hote bills-of-fare, were worked out.* A political spectacle, with red fire, torches, floats, old-time stump oratory, and the whole Rotary Club enacting scenes from the Lincoln era, was in readiness. But Chairman William E. Morton of the Entertainment Committee and his able aid, Citizenness (Mrs.) C. A. Braey, wisely decided against mass entertainments...
Chicago's Lincoln 753 acres...