Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lonely hill had become La Turbie, near Monte Carlo, where a rich Yankee expatriate spends his winters. Square-shouldered, withered little Edward Tuck, 92, went to Paris 70 years ago as Abraham Lincoln's vice consul and, except for a few early years of shuttling back & forth to the U. S., stayed on in France. He made his fortune as a private banker, built it up by investments in U. S. banks (Chase), railroads (Great Northern, Northern Pacific) and public utilities. He has given France a $5,000,000 art collection, a hospital, Napoleon's Park at Malmaison...
...words and harder feelings was Brain Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell whom President Roosevelt last week stepped up to be Undersecretary of Agriculture as a public exhibit of faith in him (see p. 14). "There seems to be a clearly defined belief on the part of many administration officials," warned Lincoln B. Palmer, general manager of A. N. P. A., "that advertising is a social and economic waste, that it should be included as a marketing cost; that even harmless trade claims should be prohibited; and that all advertisements should be strictly factual. . . . We are informed that a recently published book...
Long Life. Seth Lincoln, 91, of Worcester (Mass.), works as a typesetter in a publishing house. He is keen-witted, clear-skinned, sound as a nut. His "ideal" old age is probably due less to good family history, sensible diet and abstinence from alcohol and tobacco than to the fact that Seth Lincoln has never experienced deep sorrow or financial distress, never worries about anything.-Drs. Francis G. Benedict of Carnegie Institution and Howard Frank Root of New England Deaconess Hospital...
...upped the Derby's purse, steadily began to ballyhoo the race into a social and sporting extravaganza. Now, 73, Colonel Winn as president of the American Turf Association operates not only Churchill Downs at Louisville, but Latonia, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, as well as Lincoln Fields and Washington Park outside Chicago...
...married a girl from Baton Rouge, went to Manhattan, published a novel (Laugh & Lie Down) which impressed critics. He has had seasoned, well-written book reviews in The New Outlook, The New Republic, the New York World-Telegram. Now in Boston, he is working with Lincoln Steffens, famed libertarian and muckraker, on a biography of Merchant Edward A. Filene...