Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Representative Floyd L. Snyder, that the Missouri Waltz be established as Missouri's official state song. He introduced a bill to make it so. Then, to be sure all his fellow legislators could hum what they were voting for, he invited the orchestra of Missouri's Lincoln University (for Negroes) to swing through it for them. There was only one thing Snyder forgot: the lyrics...
From the university's music-department head, O. Anderson Fuller, came a brisk reminder: "In this song you will find such words as 'mammy', 'pickaninny' and 'darkies', which render any song unfit and unworthy of such a high honor." Lincoln's orchestra, he wrote, would have to decline the invitation to play...
...Dennis ticked them off, those principles sounded no more radical than Harry Truman's Fair Deal, no more revolutionary than the teachings of Abraham Lincoln. It wasn't Marx and Lenin who advocated force, he said. No, indeed. If violence came as a result of what the party proposed to do, said Dennis, it would be the fault of "reactionary groups [who] try to stop the march of social progress...
...Manhattan editorial office of McClure's Magazine, one day in 1902, Samuel Sidney McClure gave his goateed managing editor a jolt straight from the shoulder. McClure told Lincoln Steffens: "You don't know how to edit a magazine." Snapped Steffens: "How can I learn?" Said McClure: "You can't learn here . . . Buy a railroad ticket, get on a train, and there, where it lands you, there you will learn." Steffens, then 36, and already a crack reporter (New York Evening-Post), bought a ticket to Chicago. Before his U.S. travels were over, he had written The Shame...
...three second prizes, of $25 cach, went to Robert L. Fischelis '49 for his presentation of "Flammonde" by E. A. Robinson; Justin S. Colin '45, who gave a selection from John dos Passos entitled "Camera-eye No. 50"; and William G. Becker '51, who recited Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address...