Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republicans wanted Marshall, New Hampshire's Styles Bridges explained, because he represented the church which Abraham Lincoln had attended...
Federal Reserve (Nov.). In East Weymouth, Mass., Sam Schofield bought 64 bars of Army surplus soap, each stamped: "Save Soap to Win the War. (Signed) Commander in Chief, Abraham Lincoln...
...Washington heard her. She sang, first in the open air in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Later the D.A.R. leased her Constitution Hall, and she sang to a brilliant white and Negro audience. She had insisted only that there should be no segregation in the seating. Nobody knows the trouble that an incident like this one causes to a spirit like Marian Anderson's. No doubt such things are in her mind when she says, with typical understatement: "Religion, the treasure of religion helps one, I think, to face the difficulties one sometimes meets...
...approached his new job, nevertheless, in a very serious mood. Gardner jots down in a notebook great phrases by such men as Edmund Burke and Lincoln. He also likes to make apothegms of his own. One of them: "The common law of England represents the sifted and garnered common sense of our race." Last week he declared: "I accepted this post because I believe it to be at the crossroads of both Eastern and Western philosophy and of capitalistic and collective economy...
...early age he read Shakespeare, Lincoln, Rousseau, John Dewey and Santayana-a mixed bag of Western thought that may have contributed to the confusion and indecisiveness that runs through his political career...