Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Business. Mrs. Lincoln was not on Lincoln's funeral train. She was too ill to leave the White House until 18 days after the interment...
Kentucky's Fourth Congressional District, where Abraham Lincoln was born, last week voted Republican for the second time in its history (first time: in the 1928 Hoover sweep). It was ready to go Republican anyway. But with J. Dan Talbott as the Democratic candidate in a Congressional by-election, the Fourth gave the G.O.P. a landslide...
...best story is probably the one about Abraham Lincoln and Justice Holmes, when Holmes was a colonel in the Union Army. One day Holmes was conducting Abraham Lincoln around the Union lines when they came under Confederate fire. "Get down, you fool," cried Holmes. Said the President, who knew how to talk to soldiers, "Colonel Holmes, I'm glad to see you know how to talk to a civilian...
...soldier should get rid of his shame of fear, concentrate in battle on his task. Fear must be replaced by other forces. Of these, the Lincoln Brigade veterans rated "belief in war aims" highest (77%), with leadership (49%), training (45%) a materiel (42%) also important. Regimental pride had a great power against fear. Only 3% felt that belonging to an outfit which had made a name for itself "had no effect" on them...
...machine on which he can punch out his own mathematical visions. At 8 o'clock he has his invariable breakfast of one egg, one piece of white toast, one cup of black coffee. Shortly before 9, he walks to his four-car garage, steps into his 1941 black Lincoln Zephyr, swings around a fishpond in his front yard and out through wrought-iron gates. In ten minutes, he drives to his Santa Monica factory. He steps from his car, walks an exact 24 steps into his walnut-paneled private office, sits down behind his carved walnut desk covered with...