Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paid his respects to the memory of Gandhi (by sitting patiently through a 65-minute service at which Novelist Pearl Buck contrasted Gandhi's principle of non-violence with that of the "stupid men" who created the atom bomb) and to the memory of Lincoln (by driving to the Lincoln Memorial, watching two aides place a wreath at the foot of the Emancipator's statue...
Both the Republicans and the Democrats believe in ancestor worship. Last week the G.O.P. made its annual bow to the shade of Lincoln; this week the Democrats will honor their heavenly twins, Jefferson and Jackson. Harry Truman would make his obeisance to tradition by sitting down with a repentant Jim Farley at the Democrats' Jackson-Jefferson Day dinner in Washington...
Remote as the Southern threat was, it added zest to the Republicans' own festivities. In Huntington, W. Va. for a Lincoln Day address, Senate Republican Whip Ken Wherry taunted: "Where are the Jeffersonian Democrats today? They are just waiting to be invited to join...
...Coat & Beard. All last week, other Republicans were out in full force from coast to coast: Speaker Joe Martin in New York, Governor Earl Warren in Los Angeles, Candidate Harold Stassen in Philadelphia. In Indianapolis, G.O.P. Chairman Carroll Reece rounded up a stable of Republican orators for a nationwide Lincoln Day broadcast. In Boston, a Massachusetts college president dressed up in a frock coat and long black beard to recite Lincoln's second inaugural address...
Back in the days of "the Long Armistice," one of the favorite parlor tricks of the intelligentsia was debunking the unsullied stalwarts of the past. Abraham Lincoln became, in these circles, a shrewd country lawyer, Barbara Fritchie an irascible old fishwife, and it was discovered to the intense joy of the iconoclasts that George Washington not only told lies but had unmistakable earmarks of a stuffy, conservative militarist...