Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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KATHEBINE LATHAM Lincoln...
...next session an appropriation which would make it possible for the Government to bring home every American soldier now buried in French soil!" General John Joseph Pershing, Chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission, quietly informed newsgatherers who sought him at his sister's house in Lincoln, Neb., last week that during his recent stay of two months in Europe he neither saw nor heard of any insults written on the white crosses over the graves of U. S. soldiers...
Hugh McCulloch of Indiana, president of the Bank of Indiana, who became first Comptroller of the Currency, and who put into operation the National Banking System, as Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, and Arthur he carried through successfully the funding of the national debt after the Civil...
...proposition to President Coolidge-to set aside 20 vaults of the proposed $2,000,000 Archives Building in order to preserve for posterity historical films. Spokesman Coolidge expressed himself as favorably impressed with the idea, pointed out how educational it would be if this generation could observe President Lincoln delivering his Gettysburg address. The little man, no stranger to Presidents, was Movie Monarch Will H. Hays and as he walked the grounds of White Pine Camp, he seemed strangely pleased...
Into a white circle at the Ford airport, Detroit, flew a straggling squadron of airplanes-19 of the 23 that had set out a fortnight ago on the 2,555-mile Ford Reliability Tour around a rough quadrangle cornered by St. Paul, Lincoln, Neb., Cincinnati and Cleveland (TIME, Aug. 9). Each entry had been rated according to its fuel consumption, manageability, carrying power, and other qualities, leaving it up to the pilots to gain further points by good speed and navigation in getting from point to point. Not a great deal of figuring was needed to award first prize...