Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abraham Lincoln and George Washington battalions of U. S. volunteers fighting for the Leftists were withdrawn last week for a rest from Teruel, where 700 U. S. citizens and 300 Canadians were revealed to have been fighting on New Year's Eve. The Karl Marx battalion was still fighting at Teruel last week, and volunteer casualties were indicated by Valencia dispatches saying the Internationals required 525 "replacements...
...third allotment was $9,100 to the Lincoln School, a laboratory for the progressive theories of Columbia University's Teachers College. Purpose of the gift was to finance educational trips for Lincoln students. Fortnight ago the delighted school, which likes nothing better than to bring its students face to face with Life, loaded its entire senior (high school) class of 47 boys and girls on a train and shipped them south, with Principal G. Derwood Baker and six teachers, to study Government planning and Government ownership...
...Tenn., where the youngsters spent three days marveling at Norris Dam and affiliated housing projects, hearing about TYA from Director David Eli Lilienthal and his aides. Later, the party saw the New Deal's rural electrification projects in Virginia, its Greenbelt resettlement development in Maryland. In the meantime. Lincoln's students had also spent a day looking over a Georgia Power Co. plant at Tallulah Falls, Ga.. listening to the private power companies' side of the Government-v.-private power story...
...Lincoln's paternity, Kerndon said that Lincoln's mother was "a superior woman in mind. ... As to morals that is another question," came finally to believe that Abraham was at least legally the heir of indolent Thomas Lincoln and the uninhibited Nancy Hanks. The evidence on Lincoln's unhappy marriage ranges from an incident in which Mrs. Lincoln hit Abraham on the nose with a piece of wood because he was slow in building a fire, to a probing analysis of her aristocratic pretensions, her belief in slavery and her knowledge that Lincoln, marrying her after...
Told for the first time in The Hidden Lincoln is the story of how Robert Lincoln in 1897 was found in his home in Manchester, Vt. burning his father's papers and letters. A friend tried to dissuade him, could not, hurriedly called Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, who after "a most earnest discussion of the whole subject" persuaded Robert Lincoln to deposit the remainder in the Library of Congress. There they remain, not to be opened until...