Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Muralist Ernest Clifford Peixotto, organizer of the project, painted two: Lafayette With French Allies and Washington with Generals Knox and Lincoln...
MacDonald, in a London nursing home, following an operation for glaucoma; Mayor James John Walker of Manhattan, of a bronchial cold and low blood pressure; Governor Charles Wayland Bryan of Nebraska, in Lincoln, of injuries suffered when he slipped on an icy pavement; Mrs. Knute Rockne, widow of the Notre Dame football coach, in Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., critically, following an abdominal operation; John R. Coen, grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in Clarksburg, W. Va., of bronchial pneumonia; Actress Dorothy Gish, 34, in Manhattan, of a nervous disorder...
...Booth Had Missed? Playwright Arthur Goodman has chosen to imagine that a Negro porter knocked up John Wilkes Booth's arm just as he entered the Ford's Theatre box to shoot Abraham Lincoln.? Thereafter Honest Abe is beset by venomous political intrigue, chief movers in which are club-footed Thaddeus Stevens, treacherous Secretary of War Stanton and complacently egotistical Ulysses Simpson Grant...
...playwright has drawn considerably on what actually happened to Vice President Andrew Johnson for his subsequent material. Lincoln is villainously impeached, tried for treason. In a genuinely exciting last act, he defends himself before the bar of the Senate in a trial conducted by Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, whose judicial behavior is a good shade in favor of Lincoln. It takes 19 votes to save the President, and your scalp is in deed a tough one if it fails to tingle when the deciding vote is about to be cast. High praise goes to Playwright Good man, whose piece...
...tradition Assassin Booth, as he leaped from Lincoln's box to the stage, cried "Sic Semper Tyrannis." One E. V. McGinnis of St. Louis whose great grandfather was Booth's physician and whose grandfather was sitting in the Ford's Theatre audience on the evening of April 14, 1865, claims that what Booth really said was: "I'm sick?send for McGinnis...