Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest crowds of all will go to Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, a 79-year-old institution rich in legends of escaped animals (two of its sea lions once flopped into a North Clark Street saloon), and one of the chief ornaments of Chicago's tiara-like lake front. The Lincoln Park Zoo is not the nation's biggest, or even its best. But it has one great advantage: it is small, compact, set off by lagoons and gently rolling lawns, and is easily accessible by foot, bus, trolley and El. Largely because of its location...
Furthermore, the bill seemed certain to nullify the antitrust suit against rate agreements of Western railroads now being tried in Lincoln, Neb. Snapped the Louisville Courier-Journal: "It is hard to convince opponents of the bill that it is not an effort to beat the courts to the punch." The bill was the biggest step yet in the trend to free big sections of the economy from antitrust laws...
When a professionally partisan trial lawyer such as Manhattan's Lloyd Paul Stryker turns biographer, he also turns defense counsel. His Andrew Johnson was a passionate defense of Lincoln's maligned successor in which spleen ran as deep as fact. Now in For the Defense he still writes like a lawyer on retainer, but his defense is framed in frank hero worship. The hero: Thomas Erskine, great 18th Century English barrister and Whig Lord Chancellor of England in the reign of George...
...sweat for the armed forces over the answer to that question are the top crust of their profession: men like the Air Forces' Major General Lauris Norstad, the Navy's Admiral Forrest Sherman, the Army's braintruster, 39-year-old Brigadier General George A. Lincoln, head of the Army's strategy and policy team. Their answer is a whopper...
...Lincoln, slumped comfortably in "a Roman chair, embodies the best in Daniel French's art. Despite its size, the statue looks human enough to be a real person-somehow marbleized. The quiet hands rest loosely, and inappropriately, on chair arms ornamented with bundled rods in bas-relief: symbols of Rome's imperial power. The dramatic spotlighting, which the sculptor fiddled with for seven years after his Lincoln was installed, lends mystery to what is essentially a competent, straightforward portrait; Daniel was never one to take liberties with his subjects. "He was all for tradition and a grave, measured...