Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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OLIVER HOLBROOK Lincoln...
...Internationals' casualties have been staggeringly high. They filled up bad gaps of a slowly forming Leftist Army in the early days of the war. The French volunteers led in numbers, followed by Poles, German exiles (Thaelmann Battalion), Italian exiles (Garibaldi Battalion), English, the U. S. volunteers (Abraham Lincoln and George Washington Battalions, later simply Lincoln-Washington Battalion), Canadians (Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion), many Central Europeans...
...volunteers still fighting in the heavy Ebro engagement only by the "grapevine" route. Said one incredulous volunteer: "Don't expect too much until it comes." Revealed in Washington last week was a gift of $10,000 last July by Manhattan Financier Bernard Baruch to take 83 wounded Lincoln-Washington Battalion men home. Mr. Baruch explained : "They were willing to fight for something they believed in and I had the money to bring them home when they got hurt...
...Illinois when he was 14, saw his mother die of plains cholera on the way, helped to bury her beside the trail. He carried a musket in the local Indian "war" in 1855, attended Pacific University and became Portland's first librarian. A short article he wrote about Lincoln's assassination interested Pittock, who hired him in 1865. But five years later they disagreed over politics, and Scott went to the rival Bulletin, later serving as Collector of Customs. In 1877, he returned to the Oregonian to stay. Combining immense physical vigor with wide knowledge and a penetrating...
...power of Evans' work," says Critic Lincoln Kirstein in an excited but penetrating commentary, "lies in the fact that he so details the effect of circumstances on familiar specimens that the single face, the single house, the single street, strikes with the strength of overwhelming numbers, the terrible cumulative force of thousands of faces, houses and streets." Photographer Evans himself likes some of his pictures because of their designed humor, others for a quality of care and sensitiveness poorly known as "poetry." Evans' ruined Southern mansion, for example, is no ordinary Southern mansion but one of exceptional, weathered...