Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born on a farm at Raynham, Mass., Lincoln has always tried to do what he thought was good for the farmer. After graduating from the Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1916, he became Connecticut's first county agricultural agent, later took a job in Ohio as a bank agricultural agent; in 1920 the group of local and county farm cooperatives which had banded together the previous year as the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation asked Lincoln to become its executive secretary. He expanded the federation to 59,313 members with 230 co-op service stores, where the farmers bought $36 million...
...Borrowed Capital. The co-op members complained that they had to pay auto-insurance rates as high as those of city drivers, although they diri most of their driving on safer country roads. So, with $10,000 borrowed from the federation and pledges from members for 1,000 policies, Lincoln started a mutual auto-insurance company as a private enterprise. It was a success from the start, and later began selling policies to city people, too. It now operates in 13 states and the District of Columbia, ranks fourth among all U.S. auto insurers, second among mutuals. As chief lure...
...Secluded Suburbia. Although Lincoln resigned from the Farm Bureau co-op after the war, he did not stop expanding. He added a radio broadcasting company, an auto loan company, a mutual investment fund. He got into housing in 1947, when he started Peoples Development Co. to build 34 homes in housing-short Bellevue, Ohio at the request of the National Machinery Cooperative. To finance home loans at Lincoln Village, he started Peoples Mortgage...
...building one. The village will be built around a 20-acre civic center, with a school, library, churches, playground and wooded park. It will have apartment buildings, single homes priced from $9,000 to $16,000, and a shopping center. Before the town is completed (target date: 1959), Lincoln hopes to see other communities like it springing up all over the country...
...cops caught up with the speeding, old-fashioned Rolls-Royce and brought the woman driver to a stop. What, one of the officers asked, was that bundle on the floor? The answer: "Old clothes for the Salvation Army." But the bundle actually contained the body of Lincoln Williams, handsome Negro bartender of the Last Chance Saloon, punctured by two .45 slugs fired at close range. The lady in the car-and she obviously was a lady-was Mrs. Treadway, the richest woman in town. Captain Sheffield, respectable broker and her son-in-law, sat beside...