Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never let one strand of his delicate relationships between militarists and nationalists and intriguers, drunk warlords and war-led, sadists, sentimentalists, victors and victims be endangered by his own indignations-could that be a man given to the passion of anger? . . . You might as effectively speak of an angry Lincoln or an angry Christ himself as an angry Hoover...
...Just as Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation," throbbed Negro Delegate W. H. Jackson of Indianapolis, "Dr. Townsend will sign the proclamation setting the industrial slaves free." Happy were Townsendites to be once more in the news. "Oh, yes, some think we are dead," barked National Secretary Robert E. Clements, "but look around you at the corpses here assembled and count them. Do we look dead to us? No undertaker will find business here...
...transacted. Ever at his side was his pretty redhaired, 28-year-old wife Thelma, one-time stenographer, whom he married last year. Though he still owns land in 7 States, Mrs. Clements says her husband is now only moderately well-to-do. But they can afford to drive a Lincoln automobile, criss-cross the country by airplane keep up an eight-room apartment. Early this year three Denver Townsendites returned from a mission to Washington to proclaim that Founders Townsend and Clements were not really trying to get their scheme through Congress were simply staging enough of a show...
...between the Fenians and Orangemen. But it is principally memorable for its items of unessential information which throw an oblique light on the times. Thus, Author Brown records that William Cullen Bryant introduced one speaker at Cooper Union as "a lawyer well known in the West, Mr. A. Lincoln." Lincoln's principal problem at that moment was to straighten out the affairs of his son, Robert, who had just flunked his examinations at Harvard. When Lincoln left the hall the committee assigned to escort him to his hotel paid his five-cent carfare and let him ride back alone...
...Parking will be allowed from 8.00 to 5.30 o'clock on Boylston Street from Eliot Street to Memorial Drive on North Harvard, Spurr, Franklin, and Lincoln Streets, and Western Avenue in the vicinity of Soldiers Field...