Word: lincoln
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...really believe that? I myself have always believed that Washington, Jefferson, Patrick Henry and James Monroe (Virginians all) had some small part in establishing "the essential faith of America." And the Jamaica-born bastard Alexander Hamilton of New York, the illiterate pirate Andrew Jackson of Tennessee, the ribald Abraham Lincoln of Kentucky and Illinois, the uncouth Walt Whitman of Brooklyn-did these have no part in the work...
This suggestion, in a Lincoln Day editorial in the undergraduate weekly Flat Hat of Virginia's old (1693) William and Mary College at Williamsburg, led swiftly last week to: 1) the firing of Flat Hat's Editor in Chief, 22-year-old Marilyn Kaemmerle of Jackson, Mich., who wrote the editorial; 2) an administration edict that the paper's remaining editors must choose between faculty censorship and suspension; 3) a spirited mass meeting of W. & M.'s 1,000-odd students protesting infringement of the "sacred principles of freedom of the press" bequeathed by Alumnus Thomas...
FOREIGN RELATIONS Moment In History At 4:30 in the afternoon of Lincoln's Birthday, 1945, those U.S. citizens who were listening to their radios" heard the first word of what might turn out to be the most important conference of the century...
Died. Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Lord Charnwood, 80, English biographer of Americans (Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt), one-shot detective story writer (Tracks in the Snow), five-term Liberal Member of Parliament; in England...
...observance of Lincoln's Birthday, the next issue of the SERVICE NEWS will be published on Friday, February...