Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gone, but again, like Lincoln, at the best time, not the worst. There will be others to follow, but his memory will be, in the world security talks, a touchstone to sound principles by. I suspect he will be the most potent of influences, being dead. . . . I echo the closing words of Milton's Samson Agonistes...
...Fruitless Search. In the years which followed, many another prospector searched for the site of the Lost Cabin. None ever found it. But in the early 1880s John Brognard Okie, a son of President Lincoln's physician, came to Wyoming, resolved to turn the Lost Cabin country into a different kind of bonanza. He began running sheep along cottonwood-shaded Badwater Creek and in the high mountain meadows beyond...
...William H. Seward minted a round, shiny phrase. He described the difference between Northern wage labor and Southern slave labor as an "irrepressible conflict." Later, Seward's friends explained that he had not meant that war was inevitable, much" less that it was desirable. Abraham Lincoln profoundly believed that war was undesirable, and hoped that it was avoidable, when he came into the Presidency and put Seward in his Cabinet. But Seward's phrase had caught on. Hotheads on both sides used it. By the time the shooting started, civil war was indeed "irrepressible...
...four sons of Holland-born Sjoerd Bekins felt fenced in by the family's small moving business in Lincoln, Neb. In 1895, they set out in four directions (Omaha, Texas, California and Washington) to build the biggest moving & storage business in the world. They...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose likeness will appear on bonds for the eighth war-loan drive, will also join three other U.S. Presidents commemorated in the nation's small change: the Roosevelt portrait on all new dimes will keep company with Washington (quarters), Jefferson (nickels), Lincoln (pennies...