Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fall several times in their hard-fought light-heavy-weight battle before the Army man, breaking away from the half-Nelson Levin had clamped on him, tossed his Harvard opponent with a bar and chancery hold. In the final encounter, R. W. Straus '31, Harvard heavyweight, crushed his rival, Lincoln, to the mat in short order with another bar and chancery hold...
...date was Feb. 12-Lincoln's Birthday for some 123,000,000 U. S., inhabit ants, ninth anniversary of Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti's coronation as Pope Pius XI for 331,500,000 Roman Catholics the world over.* The U. S. through the National Broadcasting and the Columbia Broadcasting Companies assisted the Pope mightily by hooking up some 150 stations in the U. S. and Canada and relaying the papal words to nations which Vatican City's station HVJ was unable to reach clearly. The hookup was the most widespread and the most intricate in radio...
...said: "Every reader of Lincoln's life will be benefited immeasurably. As to fiction among those I like best are Dickens. Bulwer-Lytton, Stevenson, Scott, Dumas, Hugo and Mark Twain...
...mere political enmity that made the air vibrant between Mr. Steuer and Mr. Kresel. Sixteen years ago, in 1915, the late Abraham Lincoln Erlanger (theatre magnate) accused Mr. Steuer of blackmailing him in the trial for breach of contract brought by an actress. After the accusation Mr. Kresel brought disbarment proceedings against Mr. Steuer. Mr. Steuer was not disbarred but he may not have forgotten the incident. Today Mr. Kresel is counsel for the Erlanger estate, defending it from the claims of Charlotte Fixel (who asserts she was Erlangers common law wife) and Mr. Steuer is Mrs. Pixel...
Died. Edward Payson Bradstreet, 100, oldest Yale graduate (class of 1853, which had 108 graduates), oldest Ohio lawyer; in Cincinnati, Ohio. His most famed historic experience was a chess game with Abraham Lincoln in 1858. This occurred in a hotel room in Hannibal. Mo. When Mr. Lincoln heard his steamboat whistle blow, he yielded the game. Oldest Yale graduate is now Dr. Virgil Maro Dow, 97, of New Haven (class of 1856, to which the late Chauncey Mitchell Depew belonged...