Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guards held an impregnable line. The "treasurer" of that 1894 team was a young fellow named "Bert" Hoover who managed to clear expenses with enough over to buy the team new uniforms. This week the same "Bert" Hoover invited his old teammates to hold their annual reunion in the Lincoln Study of the White House. Judge Abraham Lewis (substitute) was coming all the way from Honolulu and Martin Herbert Kennedy (full back) from' his post as commercial attache at the U. S. Embassy in London. An absentee: Steuart Walker Cotton, left end, former engineer in the Philippines, now dead...
...Wichita Falls, Tex., Green Bay. Wis., Elgin, 111., Duluth, Minn., Richmond, Ind., Mason City, Iowa, Lincoln, Neb., Bellingham & Seattle, Wash., all oversubscribed their drives...
...Another body which Mr. Ford has never joined is National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, although Lincoln Motor Co. has retained its membership...
...orchestra stopped playing, watched him stride furiously backstage. Chuckles subsided amid hisses. Silence followed. Then, in order to fetch Stokowski, the audience decided to clap. No further rude behavior interrupted Mosolow's Soviet Iron Foundry, a bombastic souvenir of Stokowski's recent Russian visit, or Abraham Lincoln, a rambling panegyric by Robert Russell Bennett, a Kansas City native...
...command with the Army of the Cumberland he came steadily, quickly to the fore. At Perryville, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge he won his spurs, came under the notice of Grant. When Grant was put in command of the Army of the Potomac he sent for Sheridan. President Lincoln and Secretary of War Stanton looked hard at him, were not very impressed with what they saw: Sheridan was short (5 ft. 5 in.), "painfully thin" (115 lb.). In spite of his personal bravery he had the reputation of being a cautious commander. "He never, finally, lost a battle. He was careful...