Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Island as "worthy of all praise," and his management of the public funds as "remarkably cautious, exact and particular." In Tyler's time there were no public defaulters, no corrupt army contracts, and nothing resembling the present oil scandals.. Instead of building up a colossal debt like Lincoln, Tyler reduced the one that came to him, and administered the government on one fourth less expense than his predecessor, Van Buren...
Coming to more personal matters, how is it possible to associate Tyler with such filthy stories as are ascribed to Lincoln by his friends? Granting that Tyler could not have written Lincoln's Gettysburg speech, it is also true that he could not have written, at any period of his life. The indecent letter which Lincoln wrote to a Mrs. Owens concerning a lady to whom he had proposed and by whom he had been rejected, nor could he have written any letter like that which Lincoln wrote to General Grant in 1865 asking that his son, aged...
Quite in contrast was the description of Lincoln by Col. Theodore Lyman of Massachusetts, an officer on General Meade's staff, who saw Lincoln not long before his death: "There was an expression of plebeian vulgarity in his face. You recognize the recounter of coarse stories." LYON G. TYLER
...statement of TIME which occasioned Dr. Tyler's letter was to the effect that compared to Abraham Lincoln, John Tyler was "historically a dwarf...
What Brigadier General Lincoln Clark Andrews said three years ago when he became Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition enforcement would have been pat for his new job of last week. Twelve U. S. rubber companies had formed a Rubber Institute and made General Andrews, 60, Director General...