Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking a leaf from Lincoln's book, Roosevelt had hoped to make the Republicans "the party of sane, constructive radicalism." His well-planned reforms, like the regulation of big business and the natural resources conservation program, made him and his party immensely popular, as did his brilliant diplomacy, sometimes a singlehanded operation. ("I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate, and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.") By 1908. "reactionary"' Democrats were getting the same abuse that Cousin Franklin's young men of a latter day were to heap on the Republicans. Roosevelt...
...American Communist Party is proud to honor the memory of these three heroes of American unity: Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Frederick Douglass. We are proud that the men most honored in our country were revolutionists...
...President Eisenhower, "and I'm not going to fool around." The President, seizing his first opportunity in three years, flew down to Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's Thomasville, Ga. plantation last week for a brief quail-shooting holiday. Five minutes after he arrived, on the afternoon of Lincoln's birthday, Ike was togged out in a natty corduroy cap, green windbreaker, whipcord jodhpurs and (as a protection against the locally prevalent rattlesnakes) sturdy natural-leather boots. Under his right arm, the President carried two shotguns, which he had carefully selected from his own collection: a standard...
...G.O.P.'s Lincoln Day box supper in the capital, where some 7,000 bigwig Republicans dealt with fried chicken (tickets: $1.50 each), Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson, in a frolicsome mood, fed his wife Jessie a tasty morsel without benefit of silverware...
...Lincoln Day Dinner (Fri. 10:30 p.m., NBC). Defense Secretary Charles Wilson...