Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among those who offered fowl roosts too high for careful Calvin Coolidge was rich Mrs. John B. Henderson, Washington socialite, nonagenarian widow of a Senator from Missouri, who has seen all Presidents from Lincoln to Hoover. Long has she labored to build up Washington's Meridian Hill district into a paradise of embassies and official buildings along an "Avenue of the Presidents." She asked Congress to let the Vice President live in her $300,000 mansion on 15th Street. Representative Ernest Willard Gibson of Vermont prepared a bill accepting Mrs. Henderson's gift for the nation, and appropriating...
...experts are to be taken to task, it is yet true that New Hampshire, one of the 13 Original States (which-neighboring Maine & Vermont were not) has given the U. S. many a famed statesman. Among them: Josiah Bartlett, "Signer"; Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln; Governor John A. Dix of New York; Governors Butler, Cox of Massachusetts ; Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks; U. S. Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone; Major General Leonard Wood...
...Because Lincoln Ellsworth, who, with the late Captain Roald Amundsen and General Umberto Nobile flew in the Norge across the North Pole in 1926, contributed a large amount toward the $250,000 which Sir George Hubert Wilkins is raising to take an old Navy submarine renamed the Nautilus, across the Pole under the Arctic ice, the name of the Wilkins expedition last week was changed to the Wilkins-Ellsworth Expedition...
Play Boy, built by Lincoln Aircraft Co., somewhat resembles the Curtiss Junior in boatlike appearance and low clearance. Performance figures are much the same. Engine: Lincoln Rocket. Cost...
...FRENCH 1 Consult Mr. Lincoln 2 Consult Professor Whittem 5 Mon. at 2 Sever 19 6 Consult Professor Morize 7 Mon. at 11 Emerson J 16 Mon. at 2 Sever 26 28 Wed. 4-6 Sever 2 29 Tues. at 9 Sever 20 40 Mon. at 2 Sever...