Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head-of-state. Four times Signer Grandi passed through the glass portals-once for a courteous "Excellency! Excellency!," once for a respectful "A rivederci," once for a great State dinner in his honor and once for a long private talk with the President. In the Lincoln Study three easy chairs were pulled before the fireplace. Into them sank Messrs. Hoover, Grandi & Stimson. Because of the Foreign Minister's good command of English, no interpreter was necessary and in two and one-half hours the trio covered the equivalent of what last month it took a non-English-speaking Premier...
Aiming to be "American in the sense that the writings of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Wilson are American," a new Bible came off the presses last fortnight printed and bound like any novel. Eleventh version in English since King James I's 54 scholars issued their revision in 1611, The American Bible is newly translated from the original texts, result of some six years of labor by five able savants.* Secular in appearance but convenient to the eye are its single-column pages, dialog in quotation marks, with subtitles and paragraph headings; verse numbers are set in the margins...
...President Hoover retired to the Lincoln Study, spread a mass of notes on the desk, began to write his "State-of-the-Union" message to Congress. Cabinet officers who have contributed ideas declared it would be one of the most important economic documents ever to go from the White House to the Capitol. G. 0. Politicians were inclined to view it as preliminary platform building for the 1932 campaign...
...beginning of the Civil War Mathew Brady, rich and famed, with luxuriant whiskers and curly black locks, went to Abraham Lincoln and Allan Pinkerton, head of the U. S. Secret Service, and begged to be allowed to accompany the Union Army, record its deeds in action. The first news photographer gave up his comfortable studio, built a little black wagon for a traveling .dark room (nicknamed the "What-is-it?'' by inquisitive soldiers), and took the field in his own uniform, a floppy straw hat and a long linen duster...
...coat his plates with collodion, expose and develop them before they had time to dry. Minie balls crashed through his little developing wagon, his horses were killed, hundreds of plates were smashed, yet he took troops in action, dead soldiers sprawled in the breastworks. He took Lincoln, Grant, most of the Federal generals of the war, and made a collection of more than 7,000 pictures, 2,000 of which the Government was glad to buy for $25,000. Today they are one of the chief treasures of the War College...