Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University Instrumental Clubs selected the following men to complete the list of officers for the coming year; vice-president, G. S. Hayes '34, of Andover; treasurer, W. M. Heyl '33, of Philadelphia; leader of the Banjo Club, F. F. Cary '34, of New Canaan, Connecticut; and librarian, Lincoln Bryant, Jr. '33, of Milton...
...paints a rapid but effective picture, tries at the same time to show "how the ordinary American . . . has become what he is today in outlook, character, and opinion.'' Such oft-told stories as the events of the Revolution and the Civil War, Washington at Valley Forge and Lincoln in his cabin Adams does not retell; but he comments on their causes, their effects on the national character...
...Dinosaurs." Says he: "It is probable that the dinosaurs passed because of lack of brain power. The difficulty of supplying our modern economic monsters with sufficient power of intellectual direction at the top has already become evident." He thinks Roosevelt "undeniably the greatest Republican President since Lincoln." For Wilson he reserves higher praise: "Here once more was the authentic voice of the great American democracy; here once more was the prophet speaking of the American dream, of that hope of a better and richer life for all the masses of humble and ordinary folk who made the American nation...
...know them i tetter they grow to life size-not to heroic or tragic or grotesque proportions. Because Author Davis tries to tell what ,ldous Huxley calls the Whole Truth About his people there is no hero in his hook, no villain. Uncle Lincoln is a rhetorical sot and a nasty old man when drunk: but with his mother he is a different character. His wife Josie. a sinister strong woman, might easily become a heroine in less clever hands than Author Davis'. Theodora is the adventuress of the family, with two firm feet to fall...
...York Clearing House made public statements that Chatham Phenix is in splendid condition. A statement was produced which showed that on Aug. 18 the bank had capital funds (resources minus liabilities) of $32,708,000 although since Dec. 31 its deposits had shrunk some $70,000,000. Attorney Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, director of the bank and its counsel, called all the ugly rumors lies, spoke of their "utter baselessness, sheer malignancy." He said Chatham Phenix would prosecute Mr. O'Connell to ''the very limit of the law," was busy seeking other rumormongers. If convicted, Monger...