Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With such a background young Cannon went to law school in Cincinnati and thence to Danville, Ill., a land of Lincoln legends, destined in another half century to grow big with Cannon legends. There he embraced Republicanism and carried it through 46 years' service in the House. His diversion, he said, was: "Raising the tariff in the daytime and raising the ante at night...
...five dollars per year for TIME. I want news for my five dollars, not prying questions. What difference does it make to you whether I am 14 or 40, ditchdigger or druggist ? What business of yours is it if I own a Ford or a Lincoln or no car at all? My subscription is paid...
...White House came John Masefield, Lincoln-like British poet of the sea and of the chase, and Mrs. Masefield. He found the President "talkative and extremely affable." Later a Washington correspondent asked him: "Did you talk about poetry* or books?" "No," said Poet Masefield...
...Danville, Ill., Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 90, one-time famed Speaker of the House, was unable to vote last week for the first time since 1860 when he cast his ballot for Abraham Lincoln. In Brooklyn three other Lincoln voters (one of them blind) went to the polls, voted for modification of the Volstead Act. ([ Montcalm County, Mich., has its heroine-Mrs. Ileea M. Henkel, onetime schoolteacher, wife of the former sheriff who was fatally wounded while arresting a drunk. She was appointed to serve her husband's unexpired term and conducted a vigorous war on the liquor...
...with grim intensity. If Sir Henry conquers, John Randolph will go to Europe on his winnings: Eclipse wins. John Randolph and the South are gallantly chagrined. Lafayette, with his Revolution limp, visits Boston and Bunker Hill, erect and vigorous at 70, with a most serviceable brown wig. As Governor Lincoln's aide, young Quincy rides beside the hero through an ovation "by bells, cannon and human lungs" from a transported citizenry which "was then homogeneous and American." In 20 tents on Boston Common, 1,200 persons dine together "like one family...