Word: lincoln
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...Union Army surgeon, Louis Schmidt got his M.D. at Northwestern University. He hung up his shingle in Chicago 51 years ago. His medical practice grew quickly, eventually became one of Chicago's largest. The growth was helped somewhat in later years by his souped-up Lincoln which got him to out-of-town calls at a spectacular clip. He hired as chauffeur a former policeman who had driven in the Indianapolis speedway races. Says Schmidt: "I don't believe in doctors driving cars. I don't believe in women driving cars, either-although the present Mrs. Schmidt...
...Abraham Lincoln carried a Waltham), it often ran erratically, and almost failed after World War I. Boston's tough Frederic C. Dumaine, an old hand at finding gold in depleted tills,* bought control and resurrected Waltham. To make Waltham pay off, he dropped the designing department, and grudged every nickel spent on advertising, thus let the name be drowned out by younger companies. After cashing in on war contracts, Dumaine sold out in 1944 to Ira Guilden, ex-vice president of the Bulova Watch Co. and former brother-in-law of Watchmaker Arde Bulova...
...shows King Or-Nina with his family, neatly gotten up in the latest Sumerian style of 3,000 B.C., i.e., bare feet and chest, a rather hefty skirt made out of hanks of wool, and a basket fitted snugly on his head. One of the last illustrations shows President Lincoln receiving at the White House...
Murder v. Cards. Lincoln Reed, a 27-year-old senior at Chicago Theological Seminary (Congregational), said that his own reasons for choosing the ministry had "improved" since his first semester. "I came in for the typical vague Protestant reason of wanting to do good works. Now nearly all of us realize that humanitarianism is not enough. We take a more religious view of our work...
...when the North American Review published extracts of The Diary of a Public Man, the book immediately became an important historical source. It purported to be a diary kept during the winter of 1860-61, in Washington. The story of Douglas' behavior at Lincoln's inaugural (Lincoln had no place to lay his hat, fidgeted with it, until Douglas stepped forward and took it from him) is one of the many familiar stories that come from this famous diary. James Ford Rhodes, Carl Sandburg, Ida Tarbell and other Lincoln biographers accepted the book as genuine ; only the biographer...