Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feared a sit-down strike by political-minded industrialists; Republicans feared edicts from a political-minded President. Upshot of concern over the spread and depth of these fears was a public meeting at New York's Carnegie Hall, staged by the non-partisan Council for Democracy. In stage-Lincoln voice, Actor Raymond Massey read a unity plea by Poet Stephen Vincent Benet. Unity speeches were made by Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, Selective Service Director Clarence A. Dykstra, Columnist Dorothy Thompson, Labor Leader George M. Harrison, Industrialist Howard Coonley, Newscaster Raymond Gram Swing, Citizen Alfred Mossman Landon...
Cornell has a good football team. Well, we Harvard graduates wish that we had one too. Freeman Lincoln...
When Lindbergh speaks he does so with the understanding, wisdom and foresight of a Lincoln...
...Besides a great victory Roosevelt also had the greatest vote of no confidence that any President ever received. On Franklin Roosevelt's brow rested something heavier than the laurels of political victory: on his big bland forehead lay a responsibility greater than any President's since Abraham Lincoln. Like Lincoln, he could and must quote Scripture: "A house divided against itself cannot stand...
...half-hearted supporter of the President, disliked by New Dealers, Connecticut's Senator Francis T. Maloney nevertheless coattailed in past a smart Republican adman and schoolmaster, 43-year-old Paul Lincoln Cornell. Delaware elected (6-5) an even more conservative Democrat: James Miller Tunnell...