Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the world's famed cathedrals spanned centuries in building: Canterbury and Peterborough, 400 years; Winchester, 500; Lincoln, 600; Notre Dame, 700; St. Peter's, 200. But England's graceful Salisbury was finished in 80 years. New York's St. John's has been 51 years abuilding. Bishop Manning will be 77 next week...
...railroad president in the country would buy "Pioneer." For months it lay useless in the Chicago and Alton yards. Then, in the spring of 1865, on the day Abraham Lincoln's funeral train arrived in Chicago, George Pullman found his opportunity. Mrs. Lincoln was on that train and she wanted to go through to Springfield that night. George Pullman's offer of his car was accepted. Station platforms and bridge railings were ripped apart so that the broad-beamed monster could...
...chance I could do some things that would be of great benefit to the world"; "In walking I am very careful to step over sidewalk cracks"; "I am not afraid of picking up a disease or germs from door knobs"; "I certainly feel useless at times"; "I think Lincoln was greater than Washington";* "My table manners are not quite as good at home as when I am out in company...
...worked closely for 23 years. He is supported, but not too ostentatiously, by the wealthy Pew, Du Pont and Columbia Gas & Electric interests (Rule 9). Since the first of the year he has let the voters see him (Rule 10) in speech-making appearances in Chicago, Nashville, Manhattan, Lincoln...
...really begins in the White House with James K. Polk scheming to get California away from Mexico, Oregon from England. "Who is James K. Polk?" Americans asked when he was nominated. They still ask. Yet Polk, says Historian DeVoto, was "the only 'strong' president between Jackson and Lincoln." He had "guts," "integrity," could not be "brought to heel." But he was also "pompous," "suspicious," "secretive," "humorless," "vindictive." He believed that "wisdom and patriotism were Democratic monopolies." He made an effort to be generous, sometimes confided to his diary: "Although a Whig he seems a gentleman...