Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wake of the joint expose, the county attorney asked a judge to appoint a special prosecutor to look into the charges; state and federal law enforcement officials launched their own investigations. It all reminds some Clinton citizens of what Abraham Lincoln said in 1858 as he stood three blocks from what is now Long's jail: "You can fool all the people part of the time, and part of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time...
Peter S. Gardner 76-4, spent part of several summers building a one room Lincoln Log cabin on his family's property in northern Vermont. Next week, Gardner and his brother will stretch a canvas across the top of the unfinished structure and camp beneath it in sub-zero temperatures...
...Nearby Lincoln also has an extensive cross-country trail system and maps are available at the town hall...
...Alger individualism was unhampered by monopoly power. Such a vision, reminiscent of Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom, presupposes a peculiarly slanted view of American history--one which Julian loses no time in expounding. He tells the senators that "Roger Williams, Ben Franklin, Sam Adams, Tom Paine, Jefferson, Emerson, Thoreau, Lincoln and the Roosevelts" shared a single "collective vision" of America as "a nation of independent and self-reliant individuals who are free because equal in wealth and power equal in opportunity if not status." It goes without saying that no such America--where opportunity was equal for all--has ever...
...history Fried is concerned with. (Each is written in a genre particular to the times and events it describes.) Samuels Book of Confessions is complemented by the journals of Basil Litchflied Prescott, transcendentalist; on the other hand, Bartholomew Flagg Prescott's contribution comprises a series of dispatches, ostensibly briefing Lincoln on the calibre of his various generals, while Stewart Rantoul os represented by muckraking articles and his correspondence with Teddy Roosevelt...