Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vile propagandist" who had represented as typical of the Philippines such "filth" as she could find in the "sewers." He cited for inconsistency with the present Philippine policy of the U. S., many a glowing period on liberty and independence by President Coolidge, Charles Evan Hughes, Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln. He argued that the Philippines were capable of economic independence, even if faced with a U. S. tariff wall, as suggested by the fact that smaller, poorer, less populous and less literate republics are increasing their export trades far more rapidly than the paternalized Philippines...
Emil Ludwig, best-selling biographer of Napoleon and Bismarck, announced last week, as he sailed from Manhattan on the Majestic, that his next word-portrait will be of Abraham Lincoln. "I carry him in my pocket," said Herr Ludwig, showing a Lincoln penny. "He fascinates...
...method of taking motion pictures is to tilt the camera at various odd angles and glimpse life from strange points of vantage. Similar in idea, it would seem are the studies by William E. Barton of Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Barton, who wrote "The Women Lincoln Loved," "The Great Good Man," and "A Beautiful Blunder" to supplement his "Life of Abraham Lincoln," has with diminished success attempted to correlate the lives of the Emancipator and Walt Whitman...
...vote was taken in the debate last night between the Liberal Club and the negro speakers of Lincoln University, held in Tremont Temple before a motley-colored audience on the question: "Resolved, That further intermixing of races in the United States is desirable." The intermixing was considered both from its biological and its social aspects...
...debate will be opened with Fairbank's speech for the affirmative. Then Marshall will state the negative point of view, followed by Hubbard and Hill, of Harvard and Lincoln respectively. The four introductory speeches will be 18 minutes in length, while each man will have the opportunity of a four-minute rebuttal...