Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government threatened to cut off his funds). Back in Tokyo, he lived fast. He gambled-not for money but for whiskey (i.e., he paid off by taking two drinks every time he lost). He patronized geisha houses. He liked to drive at top speed in his maroon Lincoln...
...valuable for the documentation it gives of Stephen Foster's politics. He wrote sentimental songs about the slaves, but did not believe they could be freed. His Pittsburgh family were fairly well-to-do (one brother was vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad) and strong Democrats. James Buchanan, Lincoln's predecessor, was a relative by marriage, and for him Foster in 1856 wrote two campaign songs...
...think Richard Barringer did an excellent job in ranking the U.S. Presidents in TIME [July 23]. He places Washington and Lincoln in the first class in achievement and moral stature. In the second rank he places Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson. A third category includes Jefferson, Jackson and Franklin Roosevelt...
Harry S. Truman, as the nation's leader in victory, was invited to play the piano for posterity. Herbert Wells Fay, custodian of Lincoln's tomb, serving in his sideline capacity as head of a society to preserve the little ways of the great, suggested that the President make a recording, wrote to him: "What could be more fitting. . . . Never in the past has a U.S. Chief Executive possessed such a marked talent...
...Lincoln, Britain's superfortress, is an enlarged and stepped-up version of the Lancaster...