Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year, for the first time in history, Democrats are making a serious bid for the Negro vote everywhere in the U. S. except the South. For nearly 70 years all Negroes were Republicans because Republican Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves in battle and blood. But today slavery, in the form of political gratitude, is paying the GOP steadily diminishing returns, and Lincoln's name, by itself, no longer works its oldtime magic...
...boxing with political phantasmagoria of their own making. As for Franklin Roosevelt's broken campaign promises of 1932, he asserts that any politician who maintains complete consistency "assumes his own infallibility and will destroy his country if he stays in power." An invitation to him to deliver a Lincoln's Birthday address last winter was promptly withdrawn after a brief statement of his political views. Explained Republican Taft: "They wanted someone who would damn F. D. R. and all his works. I can't and won't, and some of the Republican orators and candidates...
...pageant, a square dance, a barbecue, speeches. Said Ohio's onetime (1929-31) Governor Myers Cooper: "McGuffey, if living today, would be a conservative!" Said Fred L. Black, speechmaker for absent Henry Ford who collects rare Readers, restored the crumbling log-cabin McGuffey birthplace near Claysville, Pa.: "Abraham Lincoln, William Holmes McGuffey and Thomas Edison are the three Americans Henry Ford reveres most." Said Lieutenant Governor Harold G. Mosier: "Ohio's most useful citizen...
Gangling Mississippi-born Lloyd Gaines, 24, has lived in Missouri ten years, graduated last year with honors from the State's Lincoln University (for Negroes). When he applied for entrance to Missouri's law school, the University Registrar tactfully suggested that Lincoln could give him a "scholarship" to study law elsewhere. Negro Gaines declined to be sidetracked, got NAACP to bring suit for a writ of mandamus compelling Missouri to admit him. Thereupon the University threw out his application, ruled that, although Lincoln was a State college, its academic credits were not acceptable at the State University...
...court the University's attorney rehearsed both arguments, stoutly added that the State had discharged its Constitutional obligation to Negroes by chartering Lincoln as a "University" in 1921. If Negroes wanted to study law, said they, Lincoln should teach it. NAACP attorneys demanded to know how the State of Missouri could blow hot by claiming that its black and white colleges were equal, blow cold by allowing its University to reject Lincoln credits. That Lincoln was itself a "University" they denied, recalling that the $500,000 granted it to set up graduate schools had been thrown out as unconstitutional...