Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover was sitting in an old leather rocking chair in the Lincoln study of the White House talking to Journalist Frazier Hunt. The "no-quoting-the-President" rule had been partially relaxed because the non-political subject of the President's conversation was very close to his heart. It was more about babies than bathtubs, though, because President Hoover was unfolding his dreams of Child Welfare for the next generation. Journalist Hunt took down his words, printed them in the February Cosmopolitan. Excerpts...
Four University and Freshman squash teams will go into action tomorrow afternoon when teams B and C in the University group meet. The Lincoln's Inn team and the Harvard Medical team respectively on the University squash courts. Team A, which was scheduled to play the University Club of Boston, will go to Providence for an informal game instead. In the Freshman division, team C will play the University Club, and team D men will play a team from the Harvard Club at Boston...
University team B will be composed of the following men: W. L. Breese '31, J. M. Cole '32, and F. O. Canfield '32, J. G. Cornish '33, and D. M. Frame '32. It has not yet been decided who will play for Lincoln's Inn. Team C of the University group will consist of J. M. Barnaby '33, H. V. Blaxter '33, B. S. Clark '31, G. T. Emmet '31, J. S. Wilbor '33, and H. P. Walker...
...flight across the Atlantic. The outbreak of the Civil War upset that plan. Professor Lowe went to Washington to propose to General Winfield Scott the formation of a balloon corps. The General was not impressed, finally lent his ear and his aid only at the personal prompting of President Lincoln...
...advertising and was good at it, like Author Sherwood Anderson, but resigned to write. In 1926 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, went to France and wrote John Brown's Body. Some months ago he followed the well-worn path to Hollywood to write the dialog for Abraham Lincoln (TIME, Sept. 8). Other books: Five Men and Pompey, The Beginning of Wisdom, Spanish Bayonet...