Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what everyone really wanted to know was whether or not the President was really going to campaign; and if not, why not? One explanation advanced was that he was "going to do a Lincoln" (the Emancipator, in 1864, made no speeches, did not register nor vote). Another was the state of his health. His physicians appear well satisfied with his general condition; but for the past two years he has worked through more & more days without his accustomed swim, which kept his muscles well-toned. And he has virtually abandoned the uncomfortable braces which make walking possible...
Nourished by reading, freedom and the love of an Irish schoolteacher (Ann Richards), Dangos' drive carries him onward & upward from the mines to the mills. He names his children Thomas Jefferson Dangos, Abraham Lincoln Dangos, etc., becomes a citizen, loses a son in World War I. As more & more steel flows into mass-produced automobiles, he becomes a motor magnate. At film's end, his airplane assembly line is helping to win World...
...Born in Lincoln, Neb., Berge learned trust-busting from the speeches of his politician-father against the railroads, the axle-grease monopoly, the binder-twine trust. Berge learned to make speeches in fact-packed, coldly logical style while stumping the state with his father. At the University of Nebraska he was a star student, once passed a course on Poet John Milton with a grade of 95 after only a week's study. He got his law degree at the University of Michigan, gave up work in a Manhattan law firm as too dull, and went to the antitrust...
Because Grumman plants, 17 miles away at Bethpage, have sucked in all available labor, Roy Grumman sometimes cuts the grass on his three acres himself. At 8:30 a.m. on workdays he drives his Lincoln Continental to Bethpage, returns about 6:30 p.m. He spends his evenings reading, drops in on neighbors with his wife, or plays bridge - with men if possible. He thinks women "talk too much...
...Association of American Railroads, and Wall Street railroad-bankers J. P. Morgan & Co. and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Bantamweight Attorney General Francis Biddle filed an antitrust suit in Lincoln, Neb. charging the railroads, et aL, with...