Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sent a fiery campaign booklet to all farmers: Do You Want Your Child to Go to School With Negroes? But his attempt to ride back to office on the race issue was a rank failure. Last week's election simply proved a political axiom laid down by Abraham Lincoln...
Professor Hagan from the University of Illinois is to take over some of the instruction previously carried by Assistant Professor Merle Fainsod and Dr. Lincoln Gordon, both of whom are now in Washington. Professor Hagan, who has been teaching the courses on govern- ment regulation of industry at the Illinois for the last six years, will collaboration with Professor William Y. Elliott in Government 29a, which will deal primarily with war-time controls of economic life, and will have charge of Government 29b, dealing with government regulation in time of peace. He will also tutor a number of students...
Lift Every Voice's rolling phrases and solemn, striding music (hintful of the Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana) are not new. They were whipped out in 1900 by two Negroes for a Lincoln's Birthday celebration of Negro schoolchildren in Jacksonville. Author is the late James Weldon Johnson, writer, lyricist, educator, first Negro to become a U.S. consul, secretary for 14 years of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Composer is his equally famed brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, popular song writer (Under the Bamboo Tree, Nobody's Lookin' but the Owl and the Moon...
What in hell has happened to the real Americans of this country? Have we all lost our honesty, our honor, all those qualities that men like Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and others loved and fought for? We are supposed to be fighting another war for Democracy, but do we have a Democracy for which to fight? It makes one stop in bewildering wonderment when one reads, week in and week out, of the incredible happenings in Washington...
...heroine (Marjorie Reynolds), ad libs at will, takes time out to kid one of his own recordings ("Sing it, sing it pretty!"). Two of the picture's best new songs (Berlin threw in Easter Parade and Lazy for good measure) are his: Abraham, a solid swing spiritual for Lincoln's birthday, and Let's Start the New Year Right, which does...