Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snip-snip-snip-snip. Herbert Hoover was cutting up into paragraphs a rough draft of a campaign speech. His scissors made the only sound in the quiet of the Lincoln Study. Over a large table he spread out his cuttings. He picked up a paragraph on balancing the Budget and a paragraph on Democratic extravagance, pinned them together. Likewise joined were paragraphs on New Zealand butter and tariff protection, on Democratic campaign tactics and a newspaper clipping of 50 years ago. Thus the separate paragraphs were being woven together into an oratorical tapestry when an aide knocked on the study...
...Springfield he laid a wreath on Lincoln's tomb and returned to the Arsenal to sit on the same platform with Len Small, Illinois' unsavory Republican nominee for Governor. The Hoover speech here developed a long and elaborate analogy between the Civil War & 1864 and the economic war & 1932. The President pictured himself standing in Lincoln's shoes when the latter reviewed the retreat of the Union arms. He recalled the Democratic clamor for immediate cessation of hostilities. He continued...
Public affairs gave way to political affairs at the White House last week as President Hoover pressed to a climax his campaign for reelection. For long hours he withdrew from the bustle of his regular office for the quiet of the Lincoln Study where he worked over his Indianapolis and New York stump speeches. One Cabinet meeting instead of two was held during the week and then with only half of the members present and all the discussion on campaign strategy. Most White House callers were G. O. Partisans with words of advice, good cheer or hope. Eva and Danny...
Leadership students would read the lives of Leaders Washington, Lincoln, Bismarck, Schwab, Ford, Edison, Sperry, Steinmetz et al., supplemented by Success Stories of the standard American Magazine type. There would be lectures by Instructor Wadsworth, stressing self-analysis, adaptability, flexibility of interest. Studies would also include a spatter of psychology, memory, will, habit, the brain and its structure. For homework the students would work over intelligence tests of the Army type and "Standard Interviews," a method of self-analysis which Instructor Wadsworth devised...
...Episcopal Church which he called, in the words of Phillips Brooks, "the roomiest church in Christendom." Dr. Newton needed room. Burly, round-faced, sharp-eyed, a fluent preacher, he had brought with him poetic mysticism without losing any of his old-time Baptist zeal. An authority on Abraham Lincoln, he read 2,000 works before writing Lincoln and Herndon. For McCall's Magazine he now edits a column of sermons-of-the-month...