Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absence. When he returned there was nothing left standing save three of those offices' outer walls, and during his first night in the White House he slept to the tattoo of pneumatic drills demolishing one of the remaining walls. His desk was set in the Oval Room, where Abraham Lincoln's once stood. There he settled down to attack the great problem he had seen with his own eyes, the grim reality of Drought...
Next morning found the Postmaster General breakfasting at the Executive Mansion at Springfield, Ill. He paid a courtesy call on Catholic Bishop Griffin, toured the post office, lunched with and addressed the Mid-Day Club, made a speech at the Fair Grounds, visited Lincoln's home, placed a wreath on Lincoln's tomb, drove to New Salem, inspected all 13 of the reconstructed log cabins of the town of which Lincoln was postmaster. That night in Springfield he dined with practically every important Democrat in Illinois...
...time I read the article 1 was on the President Lincoln. In the fo'c'sle there were men whose total international date line crossings came to well over 260. most of them on mail-carrying ships. No one of us had ever heard of "slowing up'' for the date line, let alone the taking on of mail...
...race was an 1896 Tallyho made by the Chicago Vehicle Co., which had not been moved for 34 years. Others in the field of 13 were an 1897 Stanley Steamer, a chain-drive International, a 1904 one-cylinder Cadillac, a rope-drive 1902 Holsman, a 1902 Lincoln truck-roadster, a 1907 Staver roadster with hard tires on its buggy wheels, a 1906 Model N Ford, a 1908 Maxwell driven to the Fair by its owner. The cars had been lent by the Fair pageant Wings of a Century. The race was run on Friday the 13th. Driving a 1904 Maxwell...
Died. Franklin MacVeagh, 94, onetime (1909-13) Secretary of the Treasury, longtime wholesale grocer, great-uncle of U. S. Minister to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh; of bronchial pneumonia; in Chicago. Farm-born, Yale-bred, he entered politics as a Democrat, could not stomach the Bryan Silver Policy, turned Republican, later disturbed Republicans by urging lower tariffs. In 1928 he supported the Smith candidacy...