Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this day, Americans will not believe that Lincoln's achievements were built on consummate skill at political patronage and courthouse politics, just as Gandhi's were built on shrewd lawyer tricks and diplomatic maneuvering. Charles Francis Adams, great with a sense of historic mission, called on Lincoln before departing for the London legation. Lincoln had little to say of high politics. Adams, being an Adams, never got over the fact that what Lincoln really had on his mind that fateful day was the patronage struggle for the Chicago postmastership. *Gandhi, like Lincoln, had his family sorrows. His first...
...Lincoln In Illinois (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). First of the Ford Theater's two gala Lincoln broadcasts...
Governor Thomas E. Dewey (Thurs. 10:30 p.m., Mutual with a Lincoln's Day address...
...Henry Ford had grown big making little cars; when he made bigger cars, (Lincoln and Mercury) he did not do as well. Young Henry Ford II thought he knew why: the bigger cars had always been subordinated to the manufacture of Fords. Last week, to give equal emphasis to all Ford-made automobiles, Young Henry set up the Lincoln-Mercury Division of Ford Motor Co. as a nearly autonomous unit, connected to the parent company only by policy and financial control...
...giving Lincoln-Mercury room to grow, he hoped to give more competition to General Motors and Chrysler (whose manufacturing units are all autonomous) in their medium and high price lines. Young Henry also had a man in mind for the job of bossing Lincoln-Mercury. Last week his brother, Benson, 28, was named a Ford Motor Co. vice president and put in charge of the new division. It was Benson's first major job in the company...