Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace was at Hyde Park, Undersecretary Rexford Guy Tugwell was in Nebraska and Assistant Secretary Milburn Lincoln Wilson on his way to Europe. In this unusual situation Willis R. Gregg, chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau, became acting head of the Department of Agriculture for a day. It was poetic justice. On occasions when the hand of God is laid heavily upon U. S. agronomy the weather man becomes the controlling influence in U. S. farm policy...
Both poets turned to prose at about the same period, Sandburg writing his colloquial children's tales, Rootabaga Stories, Masters his cycle of thesis novels. Both wrote biographies of Lincoln, Sandburg picturing him as the greatest U. S. hero, Masters seeing him as the wrecker of the Union. Last week these two poets signalized their return to verse with volumes of tributes to the people. Saluting them for different reasons, each had a different crowd in mind...
Brilliantly as Sandburg has captured the flavor of unrecorded wisecracks, most readers will find The People, Yes growing diffuse as the poet approaches his climax and speaks in his own idiom instead of that of his hero. He repeats with love Abe Lincoln's salty observations on the poor, sees Lincoln as one of the people elevated to power who never forgot his origins. He repeats with scorn Hamilton's "Your people, sir, is a great beast." Brooding on unemployment, hard times, strikes, revolutions, wars, he sees the people succumbing to one false leader after another, tricked...
With free quotations from the Bible and Abraham Lincoln, Gerry McGeer won seats in the British Columbia Legislature and the Canadian House of Commons and the mayoralty of Vancouver with the biggest majority in history. Since the rise of Alberta's Social Credit Premier William Aberhart in the next province, he has lost his self-assumed rank of "Canada's Greatest Money Reformer." Last winter he invited every celebrity he could think of to Vancouver's two-month celebration, hoped for President Roosevelt. One invitation reached London's Lord Mayor Sir Percy Vincent, a retired millinery...
...Died. Lincoln Steffens, 70, famed old-time muckraker; of heart disease; in Carmel, Calif. A bearded, sparkling, elfish skeptic, he exposed Tammany's Boss Croker, Cincinnati's Boss Cox, publicized Cleveland's Reformer Tom Johnson, Wisconsin's Reformer Robert La Follette, concluded in his Autobiography that bosses "seemed more honest" than reformers...