Word: lincoln
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...Judge. The judge before whom Oilman Sinclair last started to be tried in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, was Justice Frederick Lincoln Siddons of the famed theatrical family of that name (TIME, Nov. 14). Justice Siddons lost much prestige through having to declare a mistrial that might not have occurred had he locked up the jury. The new judge, Justice Jennings Bailey, set out to conduct a different sort of trial by examining the talesmen himself, and curtly overruling many an elaborate objection by Sinclair's lawyers. Moreover, he announced that court would convene...
...present incumbents, one is Henry Riggs Rathbone, a statesman of the wet-lipped, silver-tongued variety, with a grandiloquent voice. Mr. Rathbone's parents were in President Lincoln's box at Ford's Theatre the night of the assassination. Mr. Rathbone has never permitted himself, or any one else, to forget this coincidence...
...Republican Party owed thanks to Chauncey Depew from its inception. He stumped for its first candidate, John C. Fremont, in 1856, and attended every Republican convention from 1860 to 1920. All the Presidents from Lincoln to Harding knew him well. In 1888, he himself received 99 votes for the nomination, but withdrew in favor of Harrison, who later asked him to be Secretary of State. He declined, having the presidency of the New York Central R. R. to attend to. In 1899 he entered the Senate, but his two terms were chiefly sociable. Politics, with him, was a sideline. Business...
Other contributors to the pamphlet, which was edited by President Langbourne M. Williams of the Southern Churchman Publishing Co., were Sergeant Giles B. Cook of Matthews Courthouse, Va., only surviving member of General Lee's staff, and G. W. B. Hale of Rocky Mount, Va. They indicted Lincoln on many a charge, including the following...
...That Lincoln's admirers "have produced no special act of greatness performed personally...