Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...panic selling. Another reason lay in the 1955 products coming off the assembly lines. Last week Chrysler Corp. brought out its new Plymouths and Dodges, all lower and longer than before, with Plymouth's new V-8 h.p. boosted to 157 and Dodge's to 193. Lincoln also showed off its 1955 model, sporting king-sized horizontal grilles and twin exhaust vents in the rear bumpers. Throughout the industry, sales were so brisk that some dealers have taken more orders for new cars in the past month than they had sold in the preceding twelve months...
Poll Trouble. Aging (74) Washington Evening Star Reporter Gould Lincoln, dean of national political reporters, traveled through 17 states right up to election time, predicted within three the number of Democratic governors, the Democratic margin in the Senate within one seat, and a Democratic majority in the House within a dozen seats. Both the A.P. and New York Times sent last-minute squads of reporters out to check their earlier surveys. As a result, on election eve they predicted a small Democratic majority in the House and said the Senate race would be very close. U.S. News & World Report...
...Empire. It is a towering land, with long, lonely reaches and stupendous, high-country scenery, proud, self-assured and close to its pioneer beginnings. A geographic unit, hemmed by natural barriers, it once almost became a state (as big as all New England, New York, Delaware and Maryland) called Lincoln. Congress approved in 1886, but Grover Cleveland pocket-vetoed the bill on the advice of his politically potent First Assistant Postmaster General Adlai Stevenson, who feared that south Idaho, if left to itself, would become a Mormon commonwealth...
...Garbagemen. Jânio's triumph brought into startling prominence in Brazil an unpredictable personality who owes allegiance to no party but has never lost an election, who sometimes talks like a two-cruzeiro demagogue but insists that "all my intellectual formation is based on Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln." He began his political climb in 1946 by winning a seat in the São Paulo city council with the help of worshipful pupils and ex-pupils. From there he went on to the state legislature, where he sponsored a record 2,007 bills (60 passed, including...
...compete with Lincoln and Cadillac in the top-priced field, Chrysler has added a brand-new luxury car. The new Imperial will be entirely different from standard Chryslers, look like the experimental Ghia sports car (TIME, Nov. 16, 1953) built in Italy with low continental lines, have a pair of striking tail lights perched atop the rear fenders...