Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blood, the Russian success meant the shortening of the war by months-meant, in one word of universal longing, home. To those at home, waiting for the return of sons, brothers and husbands, it meant new hope. To all it meant peace-peace, in the sense that Abraham Lincoln had said it-"wonderful, wonderful peace...
...Washington knew that Harry Hopkins had "gone to war." For many a month, his chief job was to wheedle and wangle more & more U.S. supplies for Russia, and see that they got there. He was living in the Lincoln Room at the White House, and had the President's ear night & day. When Franklin Roosevelt tried to have the Neutrality Act repealed, Harry Hopkins lay down on his couch one day after lunch, called in legal counsel, and dictated a message to Congress in 90 minutes. It was delivered, over the President's signature, with hardly a comma changed...
Following his "discovery" by Vachel Lindsay, who read some of his poems at an appearance in Washington, he was awarded a scholarship to Lincoln University. Since then, Hughes has earned his living by writing poetry...
...deeply concerned with the politics of his country's agony. Down one side sat lanky, leonine Premier George Papandreou with members of his Government and leaders of other political groups. At the other end were Churchill, Eden, Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, Lieut. General Ronald Scobie, U.S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh, French Ambassador Jean Batlen, Soviet Military Attaché Colonel Gregory Popoff. Only the ELAS seats were vacant...
...Gwenn, and the disciplined, powerful performance of Austrian Rosa Stradner, a screen newcomer, as the nun. But the picture's biggest, toughest role is remarkably handled by 28-year-old Gregory Peck. He combines a bearing and demeanor that a matinee idol might envy (rather suggesting a sandpapered Lincoln) with a dominant naturalness. It is not surprising that he has no theatrical ancestry-his father is a San Diego druggist...