Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Students and faculty of the Law School met for their annual Christmas banquet last night at Lincoln's Inn. The feature speaker of the evening was Charles E. Clark, former dean of the Yale Law School and now Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals, who gave an informal talk...
...England armed themselves capapie, and came before their King, the cruel and crafty John, to ask a government of liberty and by law. Twice John "Lackland" denied their plea. The plea became a battle cry, the petitioners an army. London threw open its gates to them, so did Lincoln and Exeter. Wales promised help, and the Scottish nobles spurred south to add the strength of their swords. The country had risen as a man: John found himself with but seven loyal horsemen in his train, facing a nation in arms...
...into Boston Harbor. ... It was in their name . . . that they drew up that Constitution which Mr. Gladstone described as 'the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.' And it was in their name that Abraham Lincoln fought a four years' war to loosen the fetters from the slaves and to preserve the Union...
Inside, Comrade Browder was in rare form. The U. S, Government's passport-fraud case against him, said he, is "as thin as homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death" (a quote from Abraham Lincoln). Mr. Browder promised to show during his trial that "many highly respected businessmen, jurists and statesmen" had traveled "under pseudonyms...
...ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE WAR YEARS - Carl Sandburg - Harcourt, Brace (Four Volumes...