Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt was his favorite candidate, the one he was told he could most easily beat. All aglow from medicine ball the President sat on the South Lawn of the White House with his fruit & coffee and listened to the second ballot at Chicago. That evening in the Lincoln Study he heard the fourth, final ballot. He had last seen "Frank" Roosevelt during the Governors Conference in Richmond in April. They had shaken hands. The Governor had told him he had made a "very good speech." In Wartime Washington under Woodrow Wilson they used to be good friends and see much...
...long ago I stood before the tomb of Lincoln. I sought a word from him for times of trouble and for the struggle that often almost overcomes...
Speck of Gas. Engineers long ago learned that metals contain absorbed gases. Recently they learned that in lubrication the oil soaks into metal, oozes out when the machine operates (TIME, June 13). How deep into the metal does a gas go, skin-deep or throughout? Dr. Abraham Lincoln Marshall proved?with special heating, evacuating and analyzing devices ?that gas thoroughly permeates metal. From a piece of molybdenum he extracted a speck of gas one-eighth the volume of a common pin, one 100-millionth of an ounce. Dr. Marshall found it a mixture of 43% carbon monoxide, 57% nitrogen...
Even sober WTalter Lippmann of the New York Herald Tribune, whose Publisher Ogden Reid & wife were to be seen in the Press stand, was tickled by Keynoter Dickinson: "The historians admit," wrote he, "that even Abraham Lincoln made a few mistakes, but if the Senator's story is to be believed Herbert Hoover has been invincibly right from start to> finish. Such infallibility has not been known on earth, and when Mr. Hoover has his speech called to his attention by one of his secretaries he will feel either that the speech is nonsense or that the office of President...
...Little Publisher Roy Howard and his bearded partner Robert Scripps muttered nothing but laughed a great deal. Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick rarely got to the Convention, busied himself writing scary front-page editorials for his Chicago Tribune. One, titled "Half Bolshevik; Half Free," concluded with: "Unless we have, in Lincoln's phrase, a new birth of freedom, the death of our civilization is near at hand...