Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lincoln Gordon, instructor and tutor in the Harvard Government Department, will discuss the changes the war will bring to American life at a meeting of the Young Friends Sunday evening at 7:30 at the Friends Center, 5 Long fellow Park, Cambridge. Dr. Gordon is an expert in the field of government control of industry...
...loaded news columns, the Colonel invokes the tradition of personal journalism that made the Tribune great under his famed grandfather Joseph Medill, Lincoln's stanch backer and crony ("Take your Goddamned feet off my desk, Abe") and one of the Civil War's fieriest propagandists. Old Medill summed up his news technique in a classic story in 1857 headed A BRUTE. One James Wheeler was fined $5 for maltreating his wife. The Tribune story concluded: "A few months' experience in breaking stones in the Bridewell would do this Wheeler a 'power of good...
Varsity Squash Racquets Team C vs. Lincoln...
Banjo Boy Sirs: In TIME, Oct. 27, your article "Heroes" [about the theory that Abraham Lincoln was John Calhoun's illegitimate son] is a blot on your journalistic record that will be and should be hard to overcome...
...possession of revolutionary literature is to be a crime in this country, almost every school and library is guilty. The Declaration of Independence, the speeches of Jefferson and Lincoln are fuel for another book-burning. We are back in the days of Palmer Red Raids and the Lusk Committee. The Minneapolis case is more than a test of the Smith act: it is a test of our democracy...