Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tomorrow night for the group's only Boston performance this season. The performance, which is sponsored by the Radcliffe dance department, will include "Fables For Our Time," based on James Thurber's stories, "Flickers," take-off on the silent films, and "A House Divided," a Lincoln portrait...
...sweltering noonday heat, 62,000 United Automobile Workers streamed out of the gates of the Ford Motor Co.'s sprawling River Rouge and Lincoln plants and onto the picket lines. C.I.O. loudspeaker trucks rolled into place. Square white placards carried the message: FORD IS ON STRIKE. It was the first mass walkout at Ford since 1941, when a bitter, ten-day strike forced stubborn old Henry Ford to recognize the union. This time U.A.W. had been painfully rallied by an old, three-alarm cry: "Speed...
...Among other Pulitzer Prizewinners in journalism: the Lincoln Nebraska State Journal, for public service; the New York Times' s Washington Correspondent C. P. Trussell, for national-affairs reporting; the Baltimore Sun's Price Day, for foreign reporting; the Boston Herald's John H. Crider and the Washington Post's Herbert Elliston, for editorial writing; the Newark Evening News's Lute Pease, for cartooning; the New York Herald Tribune's Nat Fein, for news photography...
...Manhattan, a copy of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, one of five in his own handwriting, was auctioned...
...Japanese find U.S. democracy attractive but elusive. It is strange and foreign to the touch. Schoolboys argue whether Minshushugi means Marx, Lincoln or Adam Smith. Harried housewives wonder how long it will be before belief in true democracy can scale down the price of black-market soap. Said a greying Osaka politician: "We can explain the theory of democracy and even make laws about it. But to feel it, that is the big jump. Let's face it-Japan is being baptized at a very...