Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been a seadog since the age of two, knows naval history backward and forward, is no mean amateur expert. He has not yet been on a ship bigger than a destroyer, but he knows the sea, "which is more important." A third-year student at Manhattan's progressive Lincoln School, he will be 16 years old come January...
Indiana (28): "The Republican State organization is against Willkie, with four or five strong exceptions. In State headquarters hang the pictures of every prominent Republican, from Abraham Lincoln on. The only ones missing are onetime Governor Ed Jackson, who was tried and acquitted of bribery; the late Governor Warren T. McCray, who served a Federal prison sentence for using the mails to defraud-and Wendell Willkie. . . . Yet among Indiana voters, Willkie has greater support than any other potential 1944 candidate...
...secretary so humanly addressed was young Francis Biddle of the Philadelphia Biddies, now U.S. Attorney General. He has made an offering in the form of a biography to the memory of the man he thinks may come to rank with Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln. Biddle's vivid sketching reinforces a central impression of Holmes also to be had from the monumental Holmes-Pollock Letters (TIME, April 14, 1941)-that this giant of U.S. law will ultimately be valued as a phenomenally warm, wise, skeptical, humble human being...
...American old timers at the Embassy. Harry Zinder may get back from the desert in time to have his Christmas dinner with Jack Belden at Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo where Rommel planned to have his headquarters by now- and I will be surprised if Will Lang and Lincoln Barnett don't have a really royal feast with the American troops in North Africa...
...would be the last real Christmas for the duration. The people did not insist on luxuries, or on necessities ; they bought everything. With money jingling in their pockets, they swarmed up to the counters; they said wrap it up before they asked the price. In Cleveland, employes of Lincoln Electric Co. got bonuses averaging $3,000. In Beverly Hills, an uppity dowager surveyed the crowd in Saks's swank shop, asked: "Who are all these people?" Cracked the salesgirl: "They're cash customers...