Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been told that that was the hour of Lincoln's assassination but if that is true what connection had Lincoln with watch manufacturers...
...dedicated to ''the reception of new ideas."' No contributions are paid for, but manuscripts have found their way to Editor Buttitta's offices from many a famed U. S. writer, including William Faulkner. Malcolm Cowley, Countee Cullen, Michael Gold, Sinclair Lewis, Lynn Riggs, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens...
...MARY LINCOLN-Carl Sandburg & Paul M. Angle-Ear court, Brace ($3). In Chicago's big pan. 15 years ago. one of the brightest literary flashes was Poet Carl Sandburg. His precepts (such as his famed definition of poetry as "the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits") were taken as seriously as his examples. A later day will probably rate his biological work on the Lincolns as his most considerable performance. In Mary Lincoln's 159 pages he telescopes the life of Lincoln's termagant wife as a little companion book to his 604 pages...
...Heywood Broun, Lincoln Steffens, Floyd Dell, Director William A. Hodson of the New York Welfare Council, Lawyer Jerome Frank, Vice President Sheldon R. Coons of Lord & Thomas (advertising), one-time Mayor Henry Thomas Hunt of Cincinnati, Morris Greenberg of Paramount Publix Corp., Parole Director Winthrop D. Lane of the State of New Jersey. John M. Kaplan, proprietor of Hearn's department store in Manhattan, many a New York college professor. Hessian Hills' aim is a socialized group in which the pupils feel a sense of communal enterprise and responsibility. Much of its success has resulted from the intelligence...
...Consuls put pins in their victims' chairs so they will feel stuck from the beginning." In Washington, when hearings on the annual Postal Supply Bill were made public, it was learned that the Post Office Department had traded $1,700 and eight used automobiles for a $3,500 Lincoln, employed it for general utility purposes, bought a second $3,500 Lincoln near the close of the year. Explained Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown: "When I looked at the [first] car, I found it was, too small for practicable use on formal occasions. I found that...