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Thus Roosevelt faced a Brobdingnagian chore. He must now win back to his side not a mere electoral majority but a working majority-a far larger number-of the country's citizens. In these inflamed times it was a task for a leader of Lincolnian humility, Wilsonian morality, and the clear, direct leadership of George Washington. Only the truth would persuade men now; the U. S. was sick to death of half-truths and cloudy words; of Presidential silences; of learning in 1940, from an American White Paper, what had gone on in the White House...
Captain, Judge. In the Legislature he stayed year after year, Lincolnian in frame and profile, quiet, serious, steady, until the Spanish-American War. From around Celina he recruited a company of mountaineers, joined the Fourth Tennessee Regiment-dashing in his long Custer mustaches, big rolled hat. To Cuba they went too late to fight. Captain Cord Hull now turned his attention to poker to kill time...
Pierce Butler was a poor boy, born near Northfield, Minn., on March 17, 1866, but he had no Lincolnian tenderness for those in humble circumstances. His own bitter struggle to the top only taught him that those who were successful need not be held responsible for those who failed...
...metallic clicking in the press box. Ezra, he knows, will be very much present on the opposite side of the field. The coed sitting in back of him will complain that she can't see through his old stovepipe hat, and her enthusiastic Cornell friend will smash that Lincolnian chapeau down over his ears...
...Hamilton in 1832, carried westward a year later to Miami University at Oxford, Ohio. Organizer of A. D. was a pious Hamilton student named Samuel Eells, preacher's son, who died at 32 after having been for three years a law-partner of Salmon Portland Chase, later a Lincolnian Supreme Court Justice. At Hamilton there is now a Samuel Eells Memorial Hall and at nearby Westmoreland, his birthplace, a memorial boulder. To these places last week went some 500 of the 10,997 living Alpha Delts, to celebrate the centenary of their fraternity's founding. They viewed...