Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mufti. In Miami Beach, fashionable Lincoln Road stores offered nice hand-painted neckties for $250 apiece...
...Heidelberg), Bonsal had in 1915 been a world traveler and newspaperman for 30 years, became a lieutenant colonel in World War I. For James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald (who, he says, was fond of "quoting winged words which, rightly or wrongly, he attributed to Abraham Lincoln"), Bonsal covered the meetings of Russian and German revolutionists in New York City and London, flew in balloon races, once tested a submarine in New York Harbor. When he met House he was on his way to the Eastern Front as a U.S. military observer...
Family Man. When the Warrens moved to Sacramento, the Governor's Mansion (once the boyhood home of the late great muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens) was an ugly, grey, 70-year-old frame relic. Part of the roof had toppled off, the rococo porches had rotted, plaster had fallen from the ceilings. One Governor after another had boarded off sections of the 20-room house...
...History of the Standard Oil Company); of pneumonia; in Bridge port, Conn. Daughter of a Pennsylvania oilman driven to the wall by the Rocke fellers, onetime seminary teacher Ida Tarbell gained fame for herself and thousands of new readers for McClure's with her 1896 serialized Life of Lincoln. In 1902-04 she helped bust the oil trust with a series of 19 McClure's articles; they brought in a gusher of public resentment that flowed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which did the final busting in 1911. Her rose-tinted 1925 biography...
Busy on The Seventh Cross and assigned to 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, Tracy hopes to quit pictures as soon as possible. He wants to do war work and nothing else, preferably overseas. He has on hand a piece of music and narration by Aaron Copland, called Lincoln Portrait, which he would like to do for soldiers in contrast to the always welcome-but never varied-song, dance and horseplay. "Get a little serious with them," he says, "and I think they'll like...