Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the great country he knew so well, Princeton-educated Kagawa spoke out of the nationalist side of his mouth. In English-language broadcasts beamed at the U.S. he attacked American "savagery comparable to the lowest cannibalism," argued that if America had not lost the spirit of Washington and Lincoln her leaders would cease the cruel perfidy of the war against Japan. After the war he did not deny his words. The broadcasts had been made, explained Kagawa, to show both his government and his people that a Japanese Christian could also be a patriot...
From a Chamber of Commerce viewpoint, the Memphis of Ed Crump left little to be desired. But was it a part of free America? Tennessee's own Andy Jackson would not have thought so. Yet, as muckraker Lincoln Steffens discovered four decades ago, boss-ridden Memphis had followed the pattern of countless U.S. municipalities. In his way, Ed Crump was a classic American figure...
Gypsy Rose Lee, dressed to the chin, prim as a nanny and starchy as a duchess, took the air in Chicago's Lincoln Park with Son Eric nestled in a "cuddleseat," gave her public something new to goggle...
CHARLES M. LINCOLN...
Henry Skirball '49--Carol Ecker (Horace Mann Lincoln...