Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...error to creep in. Cleveland was both the 22nd and 24th President of the U.S. It is true that the records of Congress list F.D.R. as the 31st President. But the Congress is a separate branch of the Government. Check with the Constitution. WILLIAM E. BARINGER, PH.D. The Abraham Lincoln Association Springfield...
Making of a Man. Arthur Vandenberg was born in 1884 in Grand Rapids, a town famed for its furniture and its Dutch-descended population. His grandfather helped nominate Lincoln in 1860. His father, Aaron Vandenberg, was a harness-maker who was cleaned out in the Cleveland panic of 1893. After that, Father Vandenberg gave his son the stern ad monition: "Always be a Republican." In the government club at Grand Rapids' Central High School, young "Van," who had a flair for oratory, was the "Senator from Michigan." Few doubted even then that he would like to have the title...
...East Room. Here, on another April afternoon, Abraham Lincoln's body had lain, his little sons Tad and Robert sitting at his feet, General Ulysses S. Grant in sash and white gloves at his head. Lincoln's coffin had rested under a black canopy so high it almost touched the ceiling. Windows, mirrors and. chandeliers had been smothered in crepe and the room had been ostentatiously gloomy. Now the East Room was just a corner of a big house, long lived...
...away." South Africa's great Jan Christian Smuts ("We two Dutchmen got along splendidly," he had said of his first meeting with Franklin Roosevelt, at the Cairo Conference in November 1943) paid a simple, heartfelt tribute: "His passing leaves us very poor indeed. .. . ." People's Man. Not Lincoln as a legend, nor Wilson, beyond his brief hour of triumph, had been known so well to the plain people of the earth. They felt they had lost a friend, the American who to them was all that they wanted America to be, and they feared the times to come...
...omitted its regular Sunday picture of a pin-up girl. Everywhere newspapers broke out their 260-and 300-point wood-block headlines (known irreverently to printers as the "Second Coming" type). And even the New Deal-hating Chicago Tribune used a journalistic symbol for mourning, familiar in Lincoln's day: "turning the rules" so that column lines would print a heavy black. The Tribune also had a chaste editorial tribute to the President. (Among major anti-Roosevelt papers, only the New York Daily News and its sister, the Washington Times-Herald, carried their feuding beyond the grave. In place...