Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desperado of the old school is "Scarface Al," plundering or murdering for the savage joy of crime. He is, in his own phrase, "a business man" who wears clean linen, rides in a Lincoln car, leaves acts of violence to his hirelings. He has an eleven-year-old son noted for his gentlemanly manners...
...recently elected members are as follows: H. V. Atherton '32, C. E. Bell '31, J. M. Bradley '33, Lincoln Bryant Jr. '33, W. H. Child Jr. '32, J. P. Cowin '32, G. T. Currier '32, J. M. Davis '32, James deRoode '33, R. K. Djerf 1G. R. G. Edwards '34, J. R. Frothingham '33, J. L. Grandin...
...Church on 16th Street where Mr. Taft regularly worshipped. The sons left the White House to motor across the Potomac with Col. Hodges to Arlington National Cemetery. There they selected an interment plot on a wooded slope over-looking Washington, a few hundred feet from the grave of Abraham Lincoln's son Robert Todd...
...This dam and its waters do not need dedicating [cf. Lincoln's Gettysburg address: "We cannot dedicate this ground."] It is rather the people gathered here who need to be dedicated [of. Lincoln's Gettysburg address: "It is rather for us here to be dedicated."]* I do not suppose I am expected to speak to the dam and the water. Anything I might say to them would be of little effect. They will stand there unconscious in accordance with the laws of chemistry and physics and no utterance of mine will have any effect on them...
Died. Abraham Lincoln Erlanger, 70, theatre owner, manager, producer; at Manhattan; after a long illness. Beginning as an opera-glass boy in Cleveland, he became a protege of the late great Mark Hanna. In partnership with Marc Klaw he organized chaotic theater bookings with a clearing house system, established a syndicate of nearly 700 theatres. Immediately after his death a dispute arose over his $75,000,000 estate between onetime New York Supreme Court Justice Mitchell Louis Erlanger, his brother, and Mrs. Charlotte Fiscal Erlanger. Mrs. Erlanger claimed to be the common law widow, hired shrewd Lawyer Max D. Steuer...