Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John M. Fry who directed the party which cornered John Wilkes Booth in a Virginia barn twelve days after he had shot President Lincoln on April 14, 1865, died last week in Seward, 111. Detective Ireland of the U. S. Secret Service seized Leon F. Czolgosz by the left arm immediately after he had shot President McKinley, Sept...
Some time later a Congressional committee presented Hero Parke with a piece of the fringe of the flag in which John Wilkes Booth's spurs caught as he leaped from the theatre box after assassinating President Lincoln...
...first taxicab? "not for speed, but to eliminate horse-droppings from the street"? in Philadelphia. Since that time he has lived in quiet retirement, except when horse races are being run. He boasts more of having seen every Kentucky Derby than of having known every President since Lincoln. Cried he last week: "God willing, I shall see Twenty Grand race again...
...Lincoln, Neb. last week, the 350 foremost U. S. track and field athletes gathered to compete in the 5 6th annual American Amateur Athletic Union championships, a meet called the "Little Olympics" because the 350 included almost all the runners, jumpers and weight throwers who will foregather again in the final Olympic trials at Los Angeles next year. Among them were: Frank Wykoff, Los Angeles sprinter, who was recovering from a horse-kick during last year's championships, who has unofficially surpassed the world's record for 100 yd. (9.5 sec.), who has not been beaten in four...
This Brill. Dr. Abraham Arden Brill's characterization of Abraham Lincoln as a schizoid-manic personality (TIME, June 15) must be painful to teachers who hold Lincoln as a model for their pupils. "But who is this Dr. Brill?* Teachers have never before heard of him. What do other psychiatrists say? . . . Teachers, before accepting his conclusions, would want to see an analysis of the doctor's own mentality." (James William Crabtree, secretary of the Association...