Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petition that he submit U. S. membership in the World Court to the Senate for ratification. Among many notable petitioners were: John Joseph Pershing, Julius H. Barnes, Roy Wilson Howard, Felix M. Warburg, Jane Addams, Newton Diehl Baker, Seward Prosser, Matthew Woll, Fred John Fisher, Edward A. Filene, Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, Herbert Bayard Swope, Silas Hardy Strawn, Myron Charles Taylor, Admiral William Sowden Sims, Alfred Pritchard Sloan...
...must . . . make . . . for India . . . a federal system of government composed of the Native States and of British India . . . a co-equal partner in the great British Commonwealth . . . [in] the words of Abraham Lincoln "with malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right...
...months ago, when Mr. Coolidge was new to the field of belles lettres, Sculptor Borglum commissioned him to write a 500-word history of the U. S., which Sculptor Borglum would then carve beside the colossal figures of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt which he is hewing upon the austere face of Mount Rushmore, S. Dak. Discovering that the first hundred years were literally the hardest. Historian Coolidge took his time over the inscription, finally submitted a few paragraphs...
...year without being able to do so. They did adopt a budget of $70,000 for 1931, promised newsgatherers that by next November the figures of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would be complete as far down as the waistcoats, that men would be at work on Abraham Lincoln...
...greatest part of the service is performed in settlement houses such as Lincoln House, North Bennet Street Industrial School, Denison House, Cambridge Y. M. C. A., Emmanuel Memorial House, and the Ellis Memorial. Here the volunteers act as lenders in the activities of the boys' organizations, refereeing or coaching basketball, aiding in naturalization work, teaching arithmetic, english, history, and geography. The "home librarios" form another of the most important phases of the work. Certain books are read by the members of the boys' clubs who write short reports telling whether they liked or disliked reading. General discussions follow...