Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crooked Fence. Said he: "Some of them saw a great inflation . . . They have been proved wrong. Others then started preaching depression, depression." The President was reminded of Lincoln's story of "a farmer [who] built a fence that was so crooked that every time a pig bored a hole through it, he found himself on the same side from which he started...
...speech did the President get around to Meek. Ike said he hoped it would not sound like a political speech "if I should suggest to you the possiblity that it might be a good thing to increase the size of the delegation that you send from Lincoln's party to Washington...
...Marilyn had a good life. They bought a tree-shaded house on Lake Erie for $31,500 and paid off the mortgage in 2½ years. He had a jeep, a Jaguar and a Lincoln Continental, shared an aluminum boat with Mayor Houk. Marilyn taught basketball to schoolgirls and taught Sunday school at the Methodist church. The busy, popular couple liked bowling, golf, fishing, water skiing and sports-car races. They had one son, Little Sam, or Chip, now nearing seven...
...last named point of this program, McKay has good historical precedent. In the 19th century, Interior's General Land Office did a land-office business virtually giving away land-for railroads, land-grant colleges and, mostly, homesteading.* Lincoln, who made homesteading the law, believed in "settling of the wild lands into small parcels so that every poor man may have a home." The theory was that the people would work the land, build up the nation and make it great. In the 20th century came a new idea: the Federal Government should build up the nation and make...
Died. Bess Streeter Aldrich, 73. novelist (Miss Bishop) and short-story writer, whose tales of pioneer life in Iowa and Nebraska delighted women's magazine readers for two generations; of cancer; in Lincoln...