Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early days of the New Deal, 'and from substantially the same elements of opposition.' This is balderdash. The opposition to his plan to bring the judiciary into line is from people who care not about their property, their profits, and their old Lincoln limousines, but who care about their freedom from authority-which was what started the first big doings in this country and may well start the last. We ourselves applauded Mr. Roosevelt's program four years ago, but we decline to follow a leader, however high-minded, who proposes to take charge of affairs because...
...certainly true that American history is sadly neglected by Americans. How many know anything about the history of their own town, or state? Who was the man from Maine? When was the last Indian war? Who was Lincoln's vice-president? When...
...same time turning over to him as President, a nation intact. ... I want to get the nation as far along the road of progress as I can. I do not want to leave it to my successor in the condition in which Buchanan left it to Lincoln...
...word in Soviet Russia, orators telling everyone as Lenin did that "Electrification, plus the Soviet Power, equals Socialism!" This dazzling equation was given practical expression by erecting the great Dnepr dam, on which 30,000 Russians toiled for five years under Russian engineers topped by U. S. Engineer Hugh Lincoln Cooper who always gave them every credit, received a reputed $125,000 in cash, had a onetime chef-to-the-Tsar cook his meals and also enjoyed a private car. Today all standard Soviet handbooks state that "nine" Dnepr hydroelectric turbines are, not only built but "in operation...
...most interested. Mr. Krock managed to get one paragraph for quasi-direct quotation ("the President this week has been saying to his friends"): "When I retire to private life on Jan. 20, 1941, I do not want to leave the country in the condition Buchanan left it to Lincoln.-If I cannot, in the brief time given me to attack its deep and disturbing problems, solve those problems, I hope at least to have moved them well on the way to solution by my successor. It is absolutely essential that the solving process begin at once...