Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Illinois. From Chicago to Springfield Democrat Henry Horner, bachelor, took his own male cook and valet. On the probate bench for 18 years he won wide acclaim for his efficient management of estates. Governor Horner plumes himself on having one of the world's largest private Lincoln libraries...
Since then Tibbett has behaved as modestly as any good Alger hero. He has a new wife, the former Mrs. Jennie Marston Burgard,-a home in Hollywood's fashionable Beverly Hills, a Lincoln car which he drives like mad. But Tibbett has cultivated no lofty conceits, no temperamental whimsies. He refused the private dining room which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave him in Hollywood. He still thinks, and says, that singing is "just about the best fun that the human animal can have." He will still burst into song on the street or in restaurants...
...President Coolidge] himself said that he was in better physical condition when he left the White House than when he entered it." Only six of the 29 past Presidents were younger than Calvin Coolidge's 60 years when they died, and three of the six died by assassination- Lincoln, Garneld, McKinley. Average life span of the Presidents has been 68.7 years, average period after first assuming otiice 13.3 years...
...Lincoln, Garneld and McKinley were autopsied. But Mrs. Coolidge wanted her husband interred intact...
...conclusion is true, that this depression marks the beginning of an entirely new stage in American History. Then it is more than merely a novelty. Lincoln once said, "If we could first know where we are, and whether we are tending we could better judge what to do and how to do it." People act more wisely when they see the continuity of the whole. This is the service rendered by any report on social trends. Hence the tremendous importance of the committee's conclusion that "we have conquered nature: now we must take up the more intricate and delicate...