Word: lincoln
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...Francisco's Superior Court last week Charlotte Anita Whitney, 68-year-old daughter of a onetime State Senator and niece of a U. S. Supreme Court Justice appointed by Abraham Lincoln, was convicted of "false swearing" to signatures on Communist petitions for a place on the ballot, faced a possible sentence of six years in prison...
...official game against Mt. Hope on December 21, the Varsity team A has already opened its season with a win in the Massachusetts State Squash League. On Tuesday the team blanked the Union Boat Club "Whites", 6-0. Next game in the local league will be on Tuesday, against Lincoln...
...League the second Varsity team met, on Wednesday, and defeated the Lincoln...
...centuries the Drake racket has flourished on both sides of the Atlantic. In the 1880's Robert Todd Lincoln, U. S. Minister to the Court of St. James's, officially warned his fellow countrymen that "shares" in the fortune of the celebrated British seaman were nonexistent. Three years ago Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown broke a precedent by making public the names of seven citizens to whom the use of the mails had been denied because they had accepted "donations" from aspirants to the Drake heritage (TIME, Jan. 23, 1933). At that time the Solicitor of the Postoffice...
Another rare item in the collection is a proclamation issued by President George Washington, January 1, 1795, setting February 18, 1795 as a national Thanksgiving day. Thanksgiving first became a national holiday as it is known today, in 1863, when Lincoln proclaimed a day following the battle of Gettysburg. Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson, in 1865 established Thanksgiving for the first time as a national harvest festival...