Word: lincoln
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When Dr. Dollard began his search for facts on fear 18 months ago, the biggest available group of Americans who had felt the impact of modern war was the Abraham Lincoln Brigade-the volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. (The study concerned their military experience, not their political views.) "The typical informant was a rifleman, noncommissioned, poorly trained by American Army standards, wounded. All observers seem to agree that he was a tough fighting...
Pershing was the eldest of nine and he split rails like his hero Abe Lincoln. He also taught school and studied law until he heard about West Point. Simply because he had the chance to get a free education, he took up the career for which he was born. John J. Pershing became a soldier...
...Lincoln Star answered: A true picture of Willkie, but what's wrong with having a man like that? Does the country want someone who doesn't know his own mind, who subordinates his conscience to party regularity, who is a well-disciplined stooge? Is the U.S. crying for another "Cautious Cal," another Harding? Said the Star: "Mr. Willkie could be a Bull Mooser, with one of the largest horn spreads of any moose on the loose. . . . He can't be Cal Coolidge...
...doors of Palestine, the Holy Land of our forefathers which was given to Israel for eternal heritage by the Lord, blessed be His name, with oath and covenant." The Vice President, his voice low, squirmed through a diplomatically minimum answer and the rabbis took trolley cars to the Lincoln Memorial. Across the Mall rolled the Star-Spangled Banner, chanted in the strange, almost sobbing intonation of Hebrew. Then the rabbis faded out of sight and out of mind...
Died. Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln, 64, charlatan extraordinary to the 20th Century; reportedly after an intestinal operation; in Shanghai. Born a Hungarian Jew, he soon became a Lutheran, left London as a Presbyterian missionary to Canada, reappeared as an Anglican curate in Kent. Then he dropped his clerical garb, called himself Lincoln, in 1910 was elected M.P. with the help of B. Seebohm Rowntree, a credulous cocoa king for whom Lincoln had turned Quaker. During World War I he became a British mail censor, was jailed after boasting how he had outsmarted Britain as a spy. Released an Anglophobe...