Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Austin was not what the world generally considered a typical American. He appeared reticent, formal, gentle, oldfashioned, a man of controlled emotions and clear purposes. He was born in 1877 in Highgate Center (pop. 500 at the time), among the green, hard hills of Vermont. He read the Bible, Lincoln, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, was fullback at the University of Vermont. Later, he settled down to the life of a small-town lawyer. In 1931, he was elected to the Senate, where, after 1939, he labored long & hard for aid to the Allies...
...when Abraham Lincoln had spoken the last words of his first inaugural address, he leaned over and handed his copy down to a young newsman named Crosby Noyes, told him to get it set in type. Washingtonians have been depending on the Noyes-edited Washington Evening Star ever since. Rich, reserved and respectable, the newspaper has become as solid a Washington institution...
Federal Reserve. In East Weymouth, Mass., Samuel Schofield bought 64 bars of Army surplus soap, found each stamped: 'Save Soap to Win the War. (Signed) Commander in Chief, Abraham Lincoln...
Skeptics recalled the story of Abe Lincoln proposing a change of policy to his Cabinet and meeting hot opposition. At the end of the argument he polled the meeting and announced: "Seven noes, one aye; the ayes have...
...Meat. In Chicago, Lincoln Park Zoo Director R. Marlin Perkins pooh-poohed the meat shortage, recommended his favorite dish : fried rattlesnake...