Word: lincoln
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...problem of government requires an approval and ratification of certain amendments by and in a convention and that the language of Article V can be taken as modified by the principles of political science." To buttress his views Judge Clark showered his opinion with nonlegal quotations from Confucius, Cicero, Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Lord Bryce, Justice Holmes, James Monroe, Benjamin Franklin, Montesquieu, William Howard Taft, Congressman Luce, Claude Bowers, Abbott Lawrence Lowell et al. He quoted a feeble joke from the Georgia Supreme Court. His opinion was a display of wide reading and deep scholarship. Whether or not it was good...
...Henry Louis Mencken, Theodore Dreiser, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill. Paul Robeson, Negro tenor and actor, not listed in Who's Who in America, is listed in Britain's Who's Who. Charles Augustus Lindbergh's history is recounted as follows: "Enrolled in flying school, Lincoln, Neb., in 1922; flew alone from New York to Paris, 1927." Col. Lindbergh's father-in-law Dwight Whitney Morrow does not appear. Nicholas Murray Butler's paragraph occupies more space in the volume than that of any other man or woman, British or foreign...
Barton Pinnacle was indicated in the will of Dr. William Eleazer Barton, Lincoln authority, father of Adman Bruce Barton, as the name which he wished given to a Kentucky mountain bequeathed by him to his alma mater Berea College...
...Engineers busy installing the water passages in Colonel Hugh Lincoln Cooper's hydroelectric dam at Dnieprostroy. . . . Col. & Mrs. Cooper & friends living on caviar and canned luxuries from the U. S., cooked by a chef who served the Romanovs. . . . Everyone quoting Lenin's axiom: "Electrification plus the Soviet power equals Socialism...
Valuable to the aggressive B. & O. will be the C. & A. system which has served Illinois since 1861, which once had Abraham Lincoln for lawyer, later carried his funeral coach. B. & O. holds bonds giving Lt control now, and these will be applied against the purchase price, leaving approximately $1,000,000 more to pay. But B. & O. purchases the property subject to some $50,000,000 in other obligations. The 'Interstate Commerce Commission places a value of $80,000,000 on C. & A. and last week stockholders, headed by Senator James Reed of Missouri, attempted in vain to prevent...