Word: lincoln
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Phrases and concepts were borrowed from all over. The old League of Nations preamble was there with "international peace and security." The Kellogg Pact had its echoes. There were Lincoln's "scourge of war" and Pope Leo XIII's "dignity of man." And there were fainter, but recognizable, traces of the Kuomintang party platform and of the Soviet Constitution...
...This the Face? In Lincoln, Neb., an amorous aerial gunner noticed the name "Helen" and a phone number on the wall of a booth, dialed, was greeted with, "Hereafter save your nickels and buy war bonds." They Also Serve ... In Manhattan, Gristede Brothers, grocers, sent two boys with each pushcart load of orders - the extra one to stand guard over the butter...
...Scholarly Sort. Everyone agreed, that is, but Sickles himself. He resumed his seat in the House. When Abraham Lincoln, first Republican President of the Union, strode awkwardly into the House and the other Democrats kept their seats in stony silence, Representative Sickles broke ranks to shake the new President's hand. "Why, Mr. Sickles!" exclaimed Lincoln, laughing and delighted, "from what I have heard of the doings at Tammany Hall, I expected you to be a giant of a man, big and broad-shouldered, tall as I am. But instead I find you are quite a scholarly sort...
...very day of the new President's first call for volunteers, Sickles resigned his seat, enlisted as a private. A few months later he raised, singlehanded, New York's "Excelsior Brigade," and became, by Lincoln's order, its colonel. By war's end he was a major general...
...Sunday after Gettysburg, Lincoln came to see his friend in a hospital. Sickles told him hollowly: "[The doctors] tell me ... that I had better put my affairs in order." "I am in a prophetic mood today," answered Lincoln, "and I prophesy that you'll live to do many an important service." Eighteen months later he made Sickles his personal envoy, sent him off to Latin America on a mission so confidential that to this day it remains a State Department secret. On his return, President Johnson appointed Sickles to be Military Governor of the Carolinas. In 1869, President Grant...