Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prime broadcasting tradition: No President of the U. S. is ever cut off the air for lack of time. Last week Columbia Broadcasting System admitted that it had inadvertently violated this tradition during President Hoover's Lincoln Day Address. In the Lincoln study of the White House the President read his speech. Out of sight of him a radio control operator checked his words from a printed copy of the address. Explained Columbia: "When Mr. Hoover finished all that was on the copy the control man switched the circuit back to the announcer to sign off. But the President continued...
Three years ago Paul Wupper, 54, was respected by the 571 citizens of Beemer. Neb., 80 mi. from Lincoln. For 20 years he had been president of Beemer State Bank, had served, too, as Beemer's mayor. But in September 1928, Banker Wupper received unwelcome visitors. They were State Bank examiners. Just before they found an embezzlement of $1,000,000 and ordered the bank closed, Banker Wupper vanished. Citizens and State offered $3,150 in rewards for his arrest...
...York, taken to Philadelphia, charged with desertion and failure to support. Wearily, the prisoner confessed that he had a wife and two children in the West. The charge was changed to bigamy. Later he confessed further, said he was missing Banker Paul Wupper. To Sheriff M. L. Enders of Lincoln he sent a wire to come and get him, he was tired of being hunted...
...shall follow failure, shall increase in quality and strength in proportion to the failure's intensity and duration. The present business depression has brought forth many investigations of the errors which caused it, even of the Capitalism under which it came. "The capitalistic system is on trial," said Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne to the sugarmen of the world at Brussels. "A system . . . under which it is possible for 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 able-bodied men to be out of work . . . cannot be said to be perfect?or even satisfactory," was what Daniel Willard, president of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad...
Married. Henry Edward Hugh Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 24, Earl of Lincoln, onetime drummer in a London jazzband, son &heir of the 8th Duke of Newcastle, and Mrs. Jean Banks Gimbernat, Manhattan socialite divorced last year in Reno; in Manhattan. In 1902 his father sold the family's most famed possession: the blue Hope diamond, reputed to bring doom upon all who own it (said to have been the property of Queen Marie Antoinette, who was beheaded, it now belongs to the separated Edward Beale McLeans of Washington...