Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army Appropriation Bill which provides for 1938 military expenditures totalling $416,413,382, a peacetime record. Sent it to the Senate. ¶Passed bills providing appropriations of $700 each for gold medals to be presented to Actor George M. Cohan, for his Wartime pepsong Over There, and Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth for his explorations, sent them to the Senate...
Speeding through Harlem, drawling Negro Comic Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Theodore Perry) had a blowout, smashed his Lincoln sedan into an Elevated pillar, cracked his skull, demolished...
That he will stick his chin out and let the ANPA, in for labor troubles, those close to Jim Stahlman deny. Routine ANPA work continues under the supervision of well-seasoned Lincoln B. Palmer who has been ANPA's paid manager at New York headquarters for 34 years...
First U. S. kindergarten was started in 1856 in Watertown, Wis. by Mrs. Carl Schurz, wife of the famed Thuringian revolutionary who became Lincoln's Minister to Spain, Hayes's Secretary of the Interior and the first German-born citizen to sit in the U. S. Senate.* Under such auspices the kindergarten soon attracted philanthropists. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, mother of William Randolph, opened one for the children in her husband's mining community at Lead, S. Dak. and financed the Parent-Teachers' Association mainly to promote the kindergarten movement...
...first citizen was Old Bas Younger, who brought his clan to settle Hoop Pole Ridge and was he-coon there till he died at 100. Old Bas died while he was making a political oration on the Fourth of July and got too excited cussing the Republican candidate, Abe Lincoln. Phinizy County had begun to get a little sissified by the time Young Bas took over the he-coonship at 70. Richard Whiting, who bought land from Old Bas, was an aristocrat. He brought slaves and blooded horses; pretty soon he brought a wife, who was a real lady...