Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that epoch preceding and overlapping the Roosevelt regime, the eyes of a million Americans would have been straining impatiently for the week's issue of McClure's or Munsey's to soak up eagerly the revelations of Lincoln Steffens on this latest evidence of the decay of the 'System,' as he had named it. Following his hurried, jumpy, journalistic style through its thorough-going exploration of the intricacies and brazen sin of municipal graft. Steffens's audience would read avidly to the last word, throw up its hands in horror at the wickedness of the Big City, make...
...these are gone, and their ghosts exist only in critiques of the period. Ida Tarboll is remembered chiefly for her popular inanity, 'Lincoln.' Baker is linked solely with his book on Wilson. Lawson, Lloyd, Phillips, Russell--they are resurrected as local color for an historical novel and then return to comfortable obscurity. Lincoln Steffens, more virile than the others, survived two revolutions and awaits a third. But to survive he has had to cut himself loose from the mentality of the epoch in which he made his name known; his companion passed civilly away in the dull garb of progressivism...
Because he rarely uses his full name, Storeman Abraham Lincoln Filene, treasurer, board chairman of Boston's William Filene's Sons Co., brother of Edward Albert Filene, petitioned a Boston court to let him drop the Abraham...
Married. William Roger Burlingame, writer, son of the late Edward Livermore Burlingame, first and longtime (1887-1914) editor of Scribner's Magazine, grandson of Lincoln's Minister to China, Anson Burlingame; and Angeline Davis (Ann Watkins), Manhattan book & play broker; in Syosset...
...large squad of pitchers upon whom he can rely. This is topped by Captain Loughlin who may be switched to third base where he has been used in practice recently. Martin Victor '35, a lanky right-hander is coming up from the Jayvees, who will join William A. Lincoln '35 and Donald H. Gleason '35, pitchers who were carried with the Varsity last spring. John J. Campana '36, twirler for last year's second Freshman teams is also on the Varsity roster. Others coming up from the Freshman teams are Richard Maguire '36, Michael S. Hovenanian '36, and Braman Gibbs...