Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Abraham Lincoln stood gravely in Manhattan's U.S. District Court, Naturalization Division, as Raymond Massey raised his right hand. The Canadian-born actor later explained: "My home is here. My future is here. This country has been good to me, and I am proud and happy to assume the obligations as well as the privileges of citizenship...
Died. Joseph C. (Crosby) Lincoln, 73, folksy, voluminous Cape Cod-born Cape Cod novelist; of a heart ailment; in Winter Park, Fla. Apple-cheeked son and grandson of sea captains, between his first novel (Cap'n Eri, 1904) and his last (The Bradshaws of Harniss, 1943), he usually summered on the Cape, wintered elsewhere, stub-penciled more than a book a year...
Between Zanesville and Massillon, last week, a black Lincoln Zephyr coupe zipped along U.S. 21. At its wheel was Earl J. Jones, the nation's newest chain-newspaper publisher. Eleven years before, Jones had rolled along U.S. 21 at the wheel of a truck that carried all of his few personal belongings. He was then a cattle dealer in bankruptcy, had dropped the name of Ralph Alonzo Stilwell to become Earl Jones, and was hunting a WPA job for himself. He found it at Zanesville...
...theater business if movie exhibitors did not buy News space. They did. When a large drugstore stopped advertising, Jones bought a rival store a few doors away. He spends part of most days behind its counters, and there he frequently entertains soldiers at dinner with his third wife (whose Lincoln Zephyr is a pale blue sedan). Earl J. Jones has given the Litticks and Zanesville plenty to think about. Last week he was the subject of juicy comment in Massillon and by editors all over the State...
...history-shaping event of each period takes the main headline, the story being told in 1944 idiom. Other stories reflect the background. For example, in the four editions covering the Civil War period - from the headlined "Sumter Surrenders, War Begins" to "Lincoln Assassinated" - there are stories on the European reaction, the discovery of oil in Pennsylvania, the first transatlantic cable, Queen Victoria's troubles with India, and Blondin's crossing of Niagara on a cable...