Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Subject to more criticism than a socialist at a Lincoln Day dinner, the University Maintenance Department does the best possible job supplying the demands of administrators, faculty, and students. In days of constantly rising labor and material costs, an agency designed to provide day in and day out repair while answering any and all emergency calls cannot please the faculty or administrative department with a College-limited budget; or the student activity group which must make its unsubsidized books balance...
...collection of Lincoln's papers was opened to scholars...
...failure could be put down to two main causes: 1) the appalling weakness of the Greek Army; 2) a personal feud between the two equal U.S. plenipotentiaries in Athens, Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh and Dwight Griswold, special head of the U.S. mission...
...week's end, a tireless friend of Greece and U.S. Ambassador in Athens since 1944 stepped into one of the planes for a quick trip to Washington. Scholarly Lincoln MacVeagh had long ago traced on the flyleaf of his well-thumbed copy of Leninism, Joseph Stalin's treatise for revolutionaries, the dictum: "It is an essential task of a victorious revolution in one country to develop and support revolution in others." MacVeagh, who speaks ancient Greek with the fluency of a contemporary of Aristides, was not really surprised by anything he had seen in Greece...
Besides a model of Gropius own house in Lincoln, often the center of argument between moderns and traditionalists, the exhibits including a novel theater design...