Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WALLACE LINCOLN...
Bald, pious Charles Wayland Bryan, brother of the late great William Jennings Bryan, got his political start in 1915 as Mayor of flat, pious Lincoln, Neb. He went on to become Nebraska's three-time Governor and the Democratic Party's skull-capped candidate for Vice President in 1924. When his third term as Governor ended last January, Brother Bryan announced that he was retiring to tend his three farms. Last week, at 68, by polling more votes than any other candi date in a nonpartisan primary, he won a nomination for Mayor of Lincoln...
Flowers of the Forest (by John van Druten; Katharine Cornell, producer). Scientific romancers have for years toyed with the notion of a super-radio which, reaching out into time and space, would overtake receding sound waves, reproduce such historic utterances as Lincoln's Gettysburg Address or Shakespeare's remarks after the opening performance of Hamlet. With more daring than credibility, Playwright, van Druten (Young Woodley) has seized upon the idea of recapturing thoughts expressed in the past as the crux for a dramatic sermon on the wastage of war. A rich and sympathetic husband has provided Naomi Jacklin...
University of Chicago's short, round Dean Aaron J. Brumbaugh worried privately for a week before he took two conservative-looking professors to call at Mr. Walgreen's office. Mr. Walgreen seated them among pictures of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, a lion, and a motto by Editor George Horace Lorimer (Saturday Evening Post), talked darkly of Reds and Sedition. As soon as they had gone he called his secretary, dictated a letter to the University's able young President Robert Maynard Hutchins: "With regret, I am having my niece. Miss Lucille Norton, discontinue her studies...
...second Crimson run was tallied in the eighth. Lincoln beat out a sharp grounder, advanced on Adzigian's hit to right, and scored when Princeton muffed a double play at second...