Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the Governor: "The colored troops are the terror of the white women in New Caledonia. Our women are afraid to go out of the house after nightfall, though recently General Lincoln [Major General Rush B. Lincoln, Commander of the Army's forces] took action and the situation is a bit better...
...General Lincoln kept silent. Washington, which handles with nervous anxiety any relations with the French, at week's end had no comment to make either...
...Abraham Lincoln, a 43-year-old London clerk who swore that his great-uncle was the original, got nine months at hard labor for receiving stolen property...
...Lincoln claims that all this Government attention is rank ingratitude; that his unorthodox ways of encouraging full production have so cut costs that he estimates the total Government saving on his kind of goods at $100,000,000. (This includes the fact that his competitors' prices have been forced down to meet his.) Trouble is that Lincoln makes too much money himself in the course of rewarding his employes: he takes no bonus, but he and his brother own 75% of the company's stock...
...this embarrassingly special situation, James Lincoln gloats that his "profiteering" is unassailable. He just says, "Let the chips fall where they may"-and calls in his lawyers. And he knows that, if the chips fall against him, 1,400 Lincoln employes will raise more Cain than...