Word: lincoln
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...onetime slave, it was for him and his kind that Chicago's Representative Oscar De Priest, only Negro in Congress, last month introduced in the House a relief bill (H. R. 10098). The measure provided that all Negroes over 75 who were freed from slavery by President Lincoln's proclamation should be pensioned by the Federal Government at the rate of $30 per month.* According to the 1930 Census, there were in the U. S. 118,446 Negroes aged 75 or more of whom Congressman De Priest estimated not more than 100,000 were slaves. He placed...
Birthdays. Dr. Charles Augustus Leale, 90 (first surgeon to reach Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre after he was shot by John Wilkes Booth); Andrew William Mellon, 77; Richard Beatty Mellon, 74; King Fuad of Egypt, 64; Florenz Ziegfeld, 63; the Knights of Columbus...
...Springfield Arsenal (rifles) during the Civil War, he invented the barber's clippers while later employed by Brown & Sharp, machinery manufacturers. After building naphtha launch engines, Motormaker Leland turned to automobiles, produced the first Cadillac in 1904, later sold out to General Motors Corp. In 1917 he organized Lincoln Motor Co. to produce Liberty Motors for the Federal Government. Converted to automobile production after the War, the Lincoln company failed and was purchased by Henry Ford, with an alleged agreement that the 2.400 stock-holders would be partially reimbursed. Though Henry Leland on the stockholders behalf sued Henry Ford...
...first three 150-pound crews are largely composed of last year's light-weights, although there is a goodly prinkling of oarsmen who filled the freshman shells last spring. The first crew is composed of the following: Stroke, Acosta Nichols, Jr. '34; 7, Alexander Lincoln '32; 6, G. F. Lombard '33; 5, E. R. Gilbert '33; 4, Heywood Fox '33; 3, L. L. Filstrup '33; 2, H. G. Pearson, Jr. '34; Bow, A. E. Phillips, Jr. '34; Cox, L. C. Becker...
Neither tried nor sentenced to Death was John Wilkes Booth. After killing President Abraham Lincoln he escaped to Virginia, was tracked down and shot in a barn which his pursuers had ignited-though some say he escaped entirely, roamed the land for years incognito...