Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anti-Saloon League founders, the Rev. Howard Hyde Russell may be isolated as "the Founder." Last week indeed he dedicated a monument commemorating a temperance speech made by Abraham Lincoln in 1846. The monument's inscription contains, in large capitals, the name of Abraham Lincoln, in slightly larger capitals the name of Howard Hyde Russell, described as "Founder of the Anti-Saloon League...
Negroes, however, do not forget. John Brown struck to free them before even Lincoln's name was great in the land. Nor does Lawyer Clarence Darrow forget. He approves of his father and John Brown having been friends in early Ohio. He helped lead last week's pilgrimage and made the woods ring with emotional oratory...
...Lieutenant Jefferson Davis mustered into the U. S. army Abraham Lincoln, head of a group of Illinois volunteers enlisting for the Black Hawk Indian...
Died. James E. Butler, 77, famed 12-year-old "Drummer boy of Shiloh," who answered President Lincoln's first call for volunteers in 1861; at Franklin...
Last week General Lincoln C. Andrews, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, called for the largest dictionary procurable at the Treasury Department, turned to words beginning with "O," read...