Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Illinois Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson's unemployment committee which last year raised $4,956,534 in five months, reorganized and set about collecting $8,800,000 for this winter. Out of his job as president of Middle West Utilities Co. stepped energetic, 30-year-old Samuel Insull Jr., son of the power tycoon, to direct the drive. In his Otis Building office in Chicago, with his dark hair rumpled and his shirt sleeves rolled up, young Mr. Insull explained: "Accomplishment comes before formality. We want to keep a friendly and informal spirit right along. There's a spiritual...
Died. Lester Lonergan, 62, actor (Brass Ankle) who staged Abraham Lincoln, The Command to Love; of heart failure while-sitting on a porch with his wife at Lynn, Mass., discussing Eugene O'Neill's newtrilogy, Mourning Becomes Electro, in which he was to have played...
...ancient dame, alert of eye, answered questions with the dramatic articulation of the 1860 stage. She stuck to her contention that the father of her grandchild was James Cannon, property man at the old Grove Street Theatre, San Francisco. Garrulous, she insisted on telling how she had shaken President Lincoln's hand in Ford's Theatre, Washington. When the plaintiff's counsel John Taaffe tried to cross examine her she screamed at 84-year-old Superior Judge George H. Buck: "I want protection from this man. Why should he come here and question me like this?" Judge...
David Wark Griffith (Abraham Lincoln...
...which went into his own pocket, for he works entirely by himself. His reply to a peace overture from another operator is quoted as: "I go along, ask no quarter, and don't give any." He was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was in the advertising business in Lincoln, Neb., before he went to Chicago, has been a pit trader since 1915. Neat, almost dainty in appearance (his hands and feet are tiny) he moves restlessly about the floor dressed usually in grey with a dark blue shirt. He has a country place near Chicago where he shoots pheasants...