Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everyone knows something about Cartoonist Nast's great battle with paunchy Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall. Many remember that Abraham Lincoln called him "the North's best recruiting sergeant." Few remember that Thomas Nast, a potent political figure in the U. S. for 35 years, was born in Landau, Palatinate, Germany, in 1840, emigrated at the age of 6, always spoke English with an accent. He always drew. At the age of 15, a small, fat boy, he asked the imposing Frank Leslie for a job. To get rid of him Publisher Leslie told him to draw the holiday crowds...
...Senate by excoriating the Administration. Jouett Shouse of the National Democratic Committee added his voice to the carping chorus by broadcasting a speech in which he declared that at Valley Forge and on Feb. 12 the Presidential addresses had eulogized Herbert Hoover almost to the exclusion of Washington and Lincoln. Concluded Mr. Shouse: "Is it any wonder that an Ohio newspaper recently said he had better be watched at Easter time...
...mouth of the sub-Hudson Holland Tunnel. By morning a gigantic posse of police, troopers, U. S. Department of Justice operatives, Coast Guardsmen, American Legionaries, Quiet Birdmen, civilians was combing an area from Boston to Baltimore. There had never been such an intensive search party since Booth shot Lincoln...
...last year earned $953,000 against $750,000 in 1930 despite a 4% drop in sales volume. The showing delighted Broker Edward F. Hutton, chairman of the board, who is said to regard Zonite as his "pet company." It also pleased such directors as Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, Colby M. Chester Jr., Herbert Bayard Swope and Hunter Sylvester Marston...
...York Committee headed by John Don Passos, has enrolled such prominent figures in both literary and social service work as: Sherwood Anderson, Floyd Dell, Babette Deutch, Waldo Frank, Corliss Lamont, Lewis Mumford, John Cowper Powys, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, and Genevieve Taggard...