Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warpath had Nebraska seen such an invasion. All week long three candidates in Nebraska's free-for-all presidential primary swept across the rich, rolling cattle-&-wheat country, whooping up the vote. Local air waves throbbed with campaign oratory. Autograph hunters had a field day. One enterprising Lincoln girl named Louise Carter managed to get herself photographed shaking hands with Bob Taft, Tom Dewey and Harold Stassen inside three days...
Helping Hands. If Tom Dewey set a fast pace, Harold Stassen was even faster. On his first day he talked to overflowing crowds at Lincoln's Union College, at Nebraska Wesleyan, at the University of Nebraska. He stopped to visit his Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity brothers, hustled out to a veterans' settlement called Huskerville, where he broadcast above the squawling of babies and a yelping dogfight...
This fragment was presented to us by an ancient Oriental, an habitue of the ovals, so to speak, who claims descent from Confucius, and who has shown remarkable prowess of late at Lincoln Downs. We quote in part...
...behold I am returned this day from Lincoln of Providence, in the land of the great races...
John B. Cadigan, Jr. of Dorchester, Jay L. Failkow of Brookline and Adams House, Thomas R. Morse, Jr. of South Lincoln and Lowell House and Thorvald S. Ross. Jr. of Cambridge will assume their posts immediately...