Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were cheers in the local Coliseum when "Alfalfa Bill" Murray rose to introduce the Nominee as a composite of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln. James A. Garfield and Calvin Coolidge "plus a pleasant personality." Returning the compliment, Nominee Landon listed the onetime Governor first among famed anti-New Deal Democrats who had espoused his cause, called on "real Democrats" throughout the land to rally...
...Haymes, Right from the Hotel Lincoln in New York...
...rebroadcast of a man's remarks days or years later should not be permitted to go out on the ether. Such mechanical repetition deprives him of the opportunity to change his mind or adapt his arguments to the moment, or in any way to clarify his position. The Lincoln-Douglas debates, for instance, could not have taken place had Douglas been a dummy or a red scal record. Furthermore, at a time when many political voices are household property, the unsophisticated listener may have difficulty deciding which is the real speaker and which the ghost...
Arrow Aircraft Corp. of Lincoln, Neb. claims it is waiting only for the financial aspects of its founding to be settled before going into mass production in a few weeks to fill the 1,000-odd orders for flivver planes it has on hand. Its plane is a conventional lightweight, low-wing monoplane. The Ford motor is set in reverse position so that the propeller is attached where the clutch normally is when the engine is used on an automobile. Ford Motor Co. has no connection with Arrow, sells motors in batches so that they cost Arrow but $150 apiece...
...become more and more radical while his friends like Walter Lippman grew steadily more reactionary. He was the only one of the brilliant New York group of pre-War liberals who actually went whole-hog for the Soviet experiment. His old mentor Lincoln Steffens bailed out on him, and at the news of his death Charles Townsend Copeland lamented his association with those awful Bolsheviks. John Reed is a legand, a fascinating legand. His story can stand retelling many times...