Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Lincoln Steffens plucked him out of Harvard in the '10's, Walter Lippmann was a progressive, so much so that his first book, "A Preface to Politics," identified him with Steffens himself. Since the War, it would seem, from the convolutions of Mr. Lippmann's mind, that he has been attacked by that disease so common among political commentators and critics of the American scene, the disease of terminology. His eyes, searching for a quiet and secure resting place, have seized upon communism, pacifism, fascism and turned them into the little pink elephants which many of his indulgent readers...
...LINCOLN LONG...
...qualification to head the Department of Justice, the youngest (45) Cabinet member can point to studies at University of Michigan (law degree, 1914), Lincoln's Inn, London and Trinity College, Dublin. As a chief assistant U. S. District Attorney (1920-23), his greatest feat was sending two big Army grafters to prison. He served seven years (1923-30) on the bench of Detroit's Recorder's Court, handling criminal cases with the enlightening aid of a psychiatrist and a sociologist, his own innovation. In two terms as Detroit's mayor, three years as Governor-General...
...Byron Foy, now high in the councils of the motor industry, roomed with Frank Murphy in his District Attorney days.* To Mr. Foy and many motor men, the new Attorney General may not seem much better than a Communist. Frank Murphy maintains that Abraham Lincoln, not Karl Marx, gave him his concern for "human rights against property rights...
...invitations went out in Aunt Eleanor Roosevelt's name only, so that it would not be a "command performance." But the President attended. Niece Eleanor, pretty, lively, 18, was to have worn a dress sent her by King George of Greece whom she met while visiting the Minister Lincoln MacVeaghs in Athens. It didn't arrive so she made out very well in billowing white organdy...