Word: lincolnisms
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...effective pleader for the Negro in the U.S. House of Representatives. Sumner, a master orator who succeeded Daniel Webster in the U.S. Senate, carried the Negro's banner there. They were the spiritual leaders of the "Radical Republicans," whose pro-Negro stand was far beyond that of Abraham Lincoln. In 1866, when President Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill to expand the Freedmen's Bureau (an agency to aid and educate former slaves), Stevens rose in the House and called the North Carolina-born President "an alien enemy, a citizen of a foreign state." In the Senate, Sumner cried...
Young Marshall went to Jim Crow public schools himself, then to Pennsylvania's private, predominantly Negro, Lincoln University. On the side. he worked as grocery clerk, dining-car waiter, baker. His father wanted Thurgood to study law; no law school in Maryland would accept a Negro...
Possible espionage concerning Furry's work in the Signal Corps laboratories at Fort Monmouth; N.J., was supposed to be the topic of the investigation. McCarthy's current plan is to hold Furry's hearing in Boston along with the "sizeable number of persons" he intends to subpoena from "Project Lincoln" of Cambridge, the super-secret air force center, dealing with U.S. radur defenses...
Many of Dr. Greenwell's first patients lived in log cabins like the one in which Abraham Lincoln was born, 15 miles from New Haven. To reach them, over rugged trails, Dr. Greenwell often had to leave the buggy and go on horseback. Sometimes he had to walk. He has also answered calls by rowboat and switch engine. Even when roads had been so improved that Dr. Greenwell could make calls by car, many of his patients had to be treated in their out-of-the-way homes because there was no hospital near by. Not until...
Mercury's seven other models also got their full share of improvements. Like the new Lincoln, which came out a week ago, Mercury is priced the same and looks much the same as last year's cars on the outside. The big changes are inside. Among them: new front shock absorbers and springs, an improved automatic (Merc-O-Matic) transmission, an easy-steering front-end suspension with a ball & socket joint replacing the old-fashioned kingpin assembly. But the biggest improvement is the engine. Instead of last year's 125 h.p. V8, the new Mercury...