Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noon last week President Hoover nipped on his radio in the Lincoln Study and sat down to listen to his renomination in Chicago. By long distance telephone he had bossed the Republican Convention as completely as if he had stood up on the Stadium rostrum and shouted his orders directly at the delegates. His patronage power had defeated a Prohibition plank for Repeal, forced the adoption of one for Revision (see p. 12). At his dictation every event moved according to schedule, the renomination was hardly more than a perfunctory anticlimax...
...words partly borrowed from Abraham Lincoln, Chile's new President declared: "We have the absolute, full cooperation of the great mass of the people who want to see in this country a Government of the people, for the people and by the people...
...clothes at cards. Blake & associates arrive in time to prevent Candidate Hicks from being publicly shamed by this crucial buffoonery. Adapted by Courtenay Terrett and the late Joseph Jackson from an anonymous story, The Dark Horse is novel, funny. Good shot: Hicks, when he has memorized one of President Lincoln's speeches to use in a debate, listening to his opponent deliver the same speech...
Died. Dr. Charles Augustus Leale, 90, one of the surgeons who attended Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre after he was shot by John Wilkes Booth (TIME, April 4); of old age; in Manhattan...
...tycoons' sent Ida to Allegheny College. She worked with Chautauqua for eight years, then went off to Paris to study French methods of writing biography. Her work attracted Editor Samuel Sidney McClure then starting McClure's Magazine. Biographer Tarbell's Life of Abraham Lincoln, serialized, brought 150,000 subscribers to the magazine. Her History of the Standard Oil Co., also serialized, reverberated from trust to trust, rocked the whole U. S. When, in 1924, it was announced that "the terror of the trusts" was about to publish her biography of Elbert Gary, U. S. Steel tycoon, anticipations...