Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Sacred Cow landed at Kansas City he rode off to the Muehlebach Hotel, went to a suite for lunch. One hour and 30 minutes later he got back into a black Lincoln limousine with his physician, strapping Brigadier General Wallace Graham, and drove the 20 slushy miles to Mrs. Truman's neat, cream-colored bungalow...
...Celebrated Lincoln's Birthday by standing at rigid attention under a wan February sun while Major General Harry Vaughan laid the presidential wreath at the foot of Daniel Chester French's brooding statue of Lincoln...
...Republicans' annual barnstorming tour in honor of Abraham Lincoln (250 speeches at 600 Lincoln Day meetings) was over. And it was now possible to get some new indications of how the local GOProfessionals sized up the 1948 presidential stakes...
...secret of my success," Roscoe Pound once wrote, "is my blame memory." As a boy in Lincoln, Neb. (he was the son of a local judge), he used to disrupt Sunday school classes by rattling off a chapter of the Bible after only one reading. After graduating from the University of Nebraska at 17, he studied and practiced law, found time to take a Ph.D. in botany and direct a botanical survey of Nebraska (there is a roscopoundia lichen...
...Though Lincoln was born south of the Mason-Dixon Line, Illinois was his home state; and his birthday is a statewide sacred day. But in one little Illinois town last week, Abe Lincoln barely got a look-in on his birthday. The town of Sheldon (pop. 1,035) had a private holiday to celebrate, and every lamppost on the main street proclaimed it: "Lizzie Richardson Day, Golden Anniversary...