Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When her postmaster father, appointed by Lincoln, died, she filled out his term, was officially designated for the job by Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor machination of local politico has interrupted her service since...
Appointed, Jeff arrives in Washington with a crate of carrier pigeons and a flock of unfledged ideas. First is to hop a rubberneck bus, inspect Daniel Chester French's noble statue of Lincoln. But when his hardboiled Secretary Saunders (Jean Arthur) tells him why the gang sent him to Washington, dumbellicose Jeff really goes to town on Boss Taylor. Framed on misconduct charges, Jeff filibusters all night by reading to bored, sleepy Senators from the Declaration of Independence, .the U. S. Constitution, the Second Epistle to the Corinthians. At dawn he wins...
...acting of the brilliant cast is sometimes superb. But Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is bigger than any of these things. Its real hero is not calfy Jeff Smith, but the things he believes, as embodied in the hero of U. S. democracy's first crisis, Abraham Lincoln. Its big moment is not the melodramatic windup, but when Jefferson Smith stands gawking in the Lincoln Memorial, listening to a small boy read from a tablet the question with which this film faces everyone who sees it: "Whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long...
Divorced. Henry Edward Hugh Pelham-Clinton-Hope, Earl of Lincoln, 32, son & heir of the 8th Duke of Newcastle, onetime owner of the traditionally deadly blue Hope diamond (now the property of Washington's Evalyn Walsh McLean); and Jean Banks Gimbernat Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 31, onetime Manhattan socialite; in London...
Your fine editorial against some of the great leaders of this country in trying to build a high-way to war was indeed excellent. We were fooled in the World War. As Abraham Lincoln said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time." The great Pope Leo XIII enlarged on the crisp words of Lincoln...