Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told what he had done with all that time. His earliest recollection (age 4) is hating Mexican General Santa Anna. At 19, Jackson joined the Union Army, spent a quiet year guarding Washington, three quiet days guarding box cars at Gettysburg during the battle. He later voted for Abraham Lincoln (Term...
Said proud William Henry Jackson, 97, last week: "How many men will be voting for Wendell L. Willkie who also voted for Abraham Lincoln...
...made a speech, declaiming: "If and when I am nominated, I want no one to notify me." He asked for a baby to kiss. Said he: "I will accept no modest sums as campaign contributions-the smallest will be $5,000,000." His colleagues hailed him as another Lincoln, pled with onlookers to wire their delegates collect, draft Timmons for Vice President...
...cellar . . . but so long as the plaster holds he will come to no harm." French surgeons in the War of 1870 pioneered the plaster closed method and in World War I it was used to some extent by U. S. Army Surgeon Hiram Winnett Orr, now of Lincoln, Neb., who contributed a preface to Dr. Trueta's book, Treatment of War Wounds And Fractures (Hoeber...
...brief speech, Carl Sandburg said sadly: "We could well pray that in some quarters of the country there would be less vehemence, less vanity of affairs, less discussion regarding what should immediately be done, and something more of the element of prayer and humility that was Lincoln's in the 'house divided' speech. If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could better judge what...