Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they were opposed to "state socialism," he called upon them to "join me." He said: "Private initiative made America. If you individually will exercise private initiative in this campaign and crusade to save America, private initiative can save America. Lincoln, his brooding figure, had an expression for it and with that I leave you. 'We will nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope on this earth...
...newsmen, who learned for the umptieth time that this was the most unconventional of all Presidential candidates, shrugged, tore up their leads. Willkie laid a wreath on the Lincoln tomb and the train rocked on into Minnesota...
...Willkie family, under Herman Willkie, lawyer, book lover, Prussian-hater, had grown up in an atmosphere of argument that began when Father Willkie woke the boys with a bellowed quotation (a favorite of Lincoln's): "Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" and lasted until the evening hour, when he would read to them from one of the 6,700 books that lined the spreading, maple-shaded house...
...Smith have hunted and fished together all their lives. Sam lived on one side of Sandy Springs' main drag, Moore on the other. This year the two sides of town decided to join under one government, and Smith and Moore were both put up for mayor. After two Lincoln-Douglas debates ("once on the depot platform and the other time down at the spring"), each got 100 votes. The election committee knew better than to hold another ballot, so Smith and Moore became co-mayors...
...sculptor, Daniel Chester French, now dead, is one of the most important figures in the history of American sculpture. Among his outstanding accomplishments can be listed the characterization of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, the "Concord Minute Man," and his six figures on the doors of the Boston Public Library. According to the classifications made by Professor Post, French belongs to the "more American" group of sculptors; the continental influence is less discernable in his work than in statues by men like Gutzon Borglum and Barnard, who were strongly affected by the formful litheness of Rodin, the magnificent Frenchman...