Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agree with Abe Lincoln, whom you quote in this article, that "among freemen there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet. . . ." But desperate circumstance sometimes requires desperate remedy. All that the G.I.s of Athens, Tenn. wanted was a fair count of their votes. And, more power to them, that is what they...
...Abraham Lincoln's admonition . . . can properly be applied only against those who have lost an election and then attempt to reverse the decision by an appeal to force. That was not the case with the Athens veterans. ... It was the machine, not the veterans, who made the appeal to force. It was the veterans who were the forces of law and order. ... I think you owe it to the veterans to say so, and to quote the rest of Lincoln's fine statement with that point in mind. He said...
...night she crossed words with her opponent in fashionable Tuxedo Park's Masonic Temple, Gus Bennet extolled the value of public debate, citing for example the Lincoln-Douglas series. Purred Mrs. St. George: "One good thing about women in politics is that they are not continually comparing themselves to the Great Emancipator...
Eleanor Roosevelt, who had dozed at the wheel of her new Lincoln sedan, came out of a three-way smashup with her appearance changed a bit but her sense of humor intact. Bowling down to Manhattan from Hyde Park she had crossed the white line, smacked one car headon, sideswiped another. Four people besides herself were bunged up. "I myself am quite well," she reported promptly in her column, "though for some time I shall look as though I had been in a football game without having taken any training. My eyes are black and blue. In fact...
...part, to qualified scholars. Some letters and documents, dealing with state secrets and living officials are still sealed up, and will remain so for an as-yet-unspecified term-presumably for at least a generation. It took over a half-century to produce anything near a definitive biography of Lincoln. There are still Lincoln documents denied to historians: the Robert Todd Lincoln collection, which he gave to the Library of Congress in 1921 with the proviso that they remain sealed until...