Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week turned out, like all polls, to be irresistible to the College's humorists, who wrote in votes for many curious people. Ted Williams led the write-ins with four, and was followed closely by Senator Vandenberg with three, and President Conant and Harold Stassen with two each. Abraham Lincoln, Father Feeney, John P. Wintergreen, Sigmund Freud, Jim Cronin, William Jennings Bryan, and Mickey Mouse got a vote spiece...
...avoiding burial in the Roosevelt landslide. But bumbling Tom Herbert had refused to ask the legislature to unite them again last summer to take advantage of Tom Dewey's pulling power. Plainly bored by Herbert's long-winded campaigning, many a Republican was listening to the impromptu, Lincoln-quoting speeches of Democrat Lausche, who had whipped the whole state machine to win the nomination, now was playing a lone hand with little mention of the rest of his ticket. His chances on Election day depended on the strength of an increasingly common curbstone comment: "I vote Republican...
...executive order, as a temporary wartime measure, which had angered the South. The South had flared up over Mrs. Roosevelt's well-meaning efforts on behalf of the Negro. But F.D.R., who did more to impose federal authority on the states than any man since Lincoln, had known how to mollify Southern politicians. His portrait hangs in Strom Thurmond's office alongside a blank space where Harry Truman's portrait once hung...
...critics have felt might be a New World substitute for the age-old traditions and usages of Europe. No one would seem better equipped than Carl Sandburg to write it, both because of his own poetry and the historical knowledge that went into the composition of his life of Lincoln...
...that part of the trouble is in the feeling that the attempt should be made. Lincoln did not start out to write a statement of democratic faith in the Gettysburg Address, but to dedicate a graveyard. The American epic, if it is ever written, may have as unpretentious an origin...