Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foreigners with no taste for such blood & thunder could have instead from Fascist Playwright Luigi Pirandello, as that Nobel Prizeman landed in Manhattan last week, a comparison of Abraham Lincoln to Benito Mussolini who is going to free the slaves of Ethiopia. People interested in neither atrocities nor slaves but with a taste for the mystic were provided for by Fascist Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio. "You are going to victory," he informed departing Italian volunteers. "It is so inexorable-I wish to say fatal- to conquer...
...Accademia San Luca. U. S. sculptors presently found that the Piccirillis could finish their works in marble better than they could themselves. Through the years the six brothers faithfully executed such work by other sculptors as Frederick MacMonnies' Civic Virtue in Manhattan, Daniel Chester French's great Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C., and Robert Aitken's pediment for the west portico of the brand new Supreme Court Building in Washington, into which Sculptor Aitken put the faces of Chief Justice Hughes, William Howard Taft, John Marshall (as a boy), Architect Cass Gilbert...
...future of Stevens and his Reconstruction Party was anybody's guess. Stevens' career was against him. He was born in Britain; he did not go to War; he has heretofore run with the capitalists. Sang one of his admirers last week: "Canada has found an Abraham Lincoln...
...Owens to lose to anyone this year in either of his two best specialties?100-yd. dash and broad jump ?was unlikely. For him to lose in both was almost unthinkable. For him to lose in both to the same man was entirely out of the question. At Lincoln, Neb. last week, the 15,000 spectators at the national championship meet of the Amateur Athletic Union walked out of the stadium rubbing their eyes, for that was precisely what had happened. Entered in four events, Owens had withdrawn from the 200-metre dash and 200-metre low hurdles...
...judges, governors, railroad builders, bankers, billiard champions, sportsmen. During the era of Western expansion, they lived on a scale comparable to that of wealthy Southern planters before the Civil War. The first Don Miguel Antonio Otero was born in New Mexico while it was still a Mexican province, declined Lincoln's appointment as Minister to Spain, was instrumental in bringing the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad into New Mexico and served on its early board of directors. Last week his 75-year-old son, onetime (1897-1906) Governor of New Mexico, gave further proof of Otero vitality when...