Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith was heckled to the verge of resigning, until he promised there would be no conscription of married men such as was later carried out under David Lloyd George and is commonplace today. Another leak revealed that Mr. Asquith was asked if Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln M. P. was a spy. No action was taken at the time, but this shady character decided to emigrate at once to the U. S. (where he later confessed that he had spied for Germany), eventually went to China and there became a Buddhist monk...
...ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE WAR YEARS - Carl Sandburg - Harcourt, Brace (4 vols...
YOUR REVIEW OF CARL SANDBURG'S NEW LINCOLN BIOGRAPHY IS GORGEOUS AND SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING IN EVERY SCHOOL IN THE LAND. SANDBURG RICHLY DESERVES THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE FROM THE SWEDISH ACADEMY...
...ABRAHAM LINCOLN-Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire - Doubleday, Doran...
Biography: Carl Van Doren's "Benjamin Franklin" is a scholarly yet decidedly reasonable account of our "first civilized American." as Charles Edward Russell once called him. . . . Of course, Carl Sandburg's "Abraham Lincoln: The War Years" is the biography of this or, apparently, any other year. A new edition of "The Pratrio Years" is now also available. . . . Henry Seidel Canby's "Thoreau" is a good, solid work on a great American writer. . . . Havelock Ellis' "My Life" is an undistinguished chronicle of a distinguish life. . . Henry F. Pringle makes "The Life and Times of William Howard Taft" a far more appealing...