Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lease appeal case, and those involving judicial construction of the Constitutional terms "free speech" and "free assembly" are of most interest to the lay public. And, again, they beamed benignly at the design for the New Supreme Court Building by the late Henry Bacon. Henry Bacon also designed the Lincoln Memorial, and his plans for the judicial, structure embodies the same stately simplicity and dignity as the marble tribute to the Great Emancipator. But this session the Court will sit in its historic little room in the middle of the Capitol...
...candidate is not a politician, but a onetime school teacher from downstate and a general secretary of the International Council of Religious Education. He believes in God, Abraham Lincoln (whom his father knew well), Calvin Coolidge, and the 18th Amendment...
This summer President Samuel M. Vauclain of the Baldwin Locomotive Works talked draw-bar-pull and horsepower hours beside the Moskva. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks talked a Russian cinema trust. Potent hydroelectric engineer Hugh Lincoln ("Muscle Shoals") Cooper proposed to harness the mighty Dnieper with dams and turbines. These purposeful people came to Moscow on business, have returned with the reticence of those who have set themselves to accomplish definite ends. Last week the press noted pronouncements of another sort of U. S. traveler to Russia...
...Lincoln, Neb., one Emil A. Glatt, farmer, started building with his own hands "the biggest spite fence in legal history," wooden towers 45 feet high supporting six strands of heavy wire near the top. Reason given by Farmer Glatt for his spite...
...Officers. The resignation of President John Henry MacCracken of Lafayette College (elder brother of President Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassal? College) was effective Oct. 1. No successor was in public sight. . . . Lincoln University (Chester Co., Pa.; for Negroes) entered its third successive year without any president at all, three candidates having been approached in-two years and found wanting some other post...