Word: lincoln
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...Peace. He was disappointed when he found it was not about cowboys and Indians, but he stuck with it nonetheless. He has read the book two or three times and counts it as one of his favorites. He was deeply moved by Sandburg's volumes on Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography...
Assassinated shortly after reelection, McKinley was succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt, whom Hanna called a "crazy man." With an unrivaled showmanship and zest for office, T.R. became the best coalition builder since Lincoln, attracting workers and farmers, reformers and imperialists. He borrowed from the Progressive program to curtail the growing power of the trusts, regulate the railroads, establish standards for food and drugs, and set aside public land for conservation. He strengthened his hold on the electorate by showing the flag around the world. "I took the [Panama] Canal Zone," he boasted...
Among moderate Republicans, few are more deeply rooted in the party's past -or more anxious about its future-than Maryland Senator Charles McCurdy Mathias. His great-grandfather, Charles Trail, ran for state senator with Abe Lincoln in 1864. His grandfather, Maryland State Senator John Mathias, campaigned beside Teddy Roosevelt in 1912. Mathias himself was a founder of the Wednesday Club of Republican moderates in both the U.S. House and Senate. On the eve of the Kansas City convention, TIME National Political Correspondent Robert Ajemian visited Mathias and reported...
Indian Hill Chamber Orchestra, Willis Traphagen, conductor, at Decordova Museum, Lincoln. Info...
...John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys. Ever present and always fine, August 15 at Jonathan Swift...