Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete his new Tariff Commission President Hoover appointed Lincoln Dixon, 70, of Indiana as its third Democrat. Mr. Dixon, like two other commissioners, was a member of the old commission that Congress put out of business. ¶Into the White House went Dwight Whitney Morrow with his resignation as Ambassador to Mexico tucked in his pocket. President Hoover asked him to stay to luncheon, talked about Mexican affairs. Not until his resignation was accepted did Republican Senatorial Nominee Morrow purpose to begin his New Jersey campaign...
...Samoans, pure Polynesians of the highest type, no heathens,* since 1900 have been politically suspended in air. The U. S. governs them through its Navy representative at Pago Pago, now Captain Gatewood Sanders Lincoln, who proclaims the laws with the approval of a native parliament. Thus if the inhabitants are citizens of anything it is the Navy, not the U. S. By Federal law they are established neither as subjects of, nor as aliens to, the U. S. Long have they wished it were otherwise. But puzzled Congressmen, unfamiliar with these tiny dots on maps of the Pacific, have...
...when Mr. Hertz resigned and the control passed to Parmelee Transportation Co. Parmelee was begun in 1853 as a service between terminals in Chicago, has carried the person or baggage of almost all people who have passed through the city since then. Its musty records show that it transported Lincoln and Douglas, likewise show that General Grant usually had two trunks, Sarah Bernhardt 40. Once when an epidemic destroyed most Chicago horses, Parmelee turned to oxen. Only in 1919 did motor coaches supplant the horse-drawn vehicles that swayed for so many years through Chicago's crosstown streets...
...incompetence, lack of progress. Sculptor Borglum destroyed his clay models in a fit of pique, was promptly indicted as a felon by an Atlanta grand jury. He removed to South Dakota, where he undertook to chisel the face of Mount Rushmore into 400-ft. statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and embellish the whole with a 500-word history of the U. S. by Calvin Coolidge...
Many a Washington tourist could identify the next Governor of the Federal Reserve Board as the gilt-lettered name of the donor of a fine head of Abraham Lincoln, sculptured by famed Gutzon Borglum and standing in the rotunda of the Capitol...