Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour later President Roosevelt turned over his office and desk to Mr. MacDonald to meet the Press alone. For 30 minutes the Prime Minister talked, delivering an eloquent sermon on international forbearance. He mentioned God six times; deplored the "awful way the world is wagging"; quoted Lincoln; told how he and the President were going to "lay their heads together." He gave out no news...
...upstairs Oval Room. Mr. MacDonald wanted to talk about War debts. Mr. Roosevelt wanted to talk about stabilizing the dollar and the pound. They had hardly felt out each other's mind and method before it was bedtime. The Prime Minister slept in what used to be Lincoln's Study. He recalled that when he was last at the White House it had been President Hoover's workroom...
...Coffee House Clubs. Earning some $60,000 a year, he lived in solid style. He worked in a sack suit and smock, talked little about the theory of art. Once a year he took out his restlessness in travel. His exhibitions were non-portable: a heroic statue of Lincoln at 21 before Fort Wayne's Lincoln National Insurance Co. building; an Indian hunter fountain in St. Paul's Cochran Memorial Park; a war memorial at Rome's American Academy; many a set piece in U. S. museums. Now 47, Paul Manship is a complete career man, with...
...sending him to the Philippines as Governor General. For the Manila post the President picked Frank Murphy, 40, the redheaded, hard-bitten bachelor Mayor of Detroit. He was an early and ardent pre-convention Roosevelt supporter. An A. E. F. veteran, a lawyer who did post-graduate work at Lincoln's Inn, London, Mayor Murphy has stoutly carried out a liberal relief program in Detroit. So generous was the Mayor with public funds that he will turn his office over to Frank Couzens, president of the Common Council and 31-year-old son of Michigan's Senator, with...
...served, it was discovered yesterday. While the College has been struggling to allow beer in the dining halls, the Faculty Club members were quietly applying for a license and were granted one on Saturday by the City of Cambridge, with the approval of Mayor R. M. Russell '14. The Lincoln's Inn Society, a law school eating club, was also granted a license at the same time...