Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lincoln findings have been on the National Security Council agenda for at least five of the seven weekly meetings of the council. They have been actively discussed each time. The Lincoln findings are also being studied in detail by two important advisory groups, whose verdict the President has indicated he will probably accept. One group-the "Seven Wise Men" as they are called at the White House-was formed by the President himself to consider the level and nature of the American defense effort. The other-a special committee on the air-defense problem headed by Mervin Kelly...
...primary aim of this letter. We are chiefly concerned, rather, because TIME has encouraged its readers to dismiss as trivial and inconsequential a problem that is enormous and urgent. The evidence suggests that TIME borrowed its attitude from the Air Force. As we wrote in our series, the Lincoln report bypassed the Air Force, and was presented directly to the National Security Council and the White House. As we also stated, the air generals not only resent this "end run"; they also have a professional deformation on the subject of air defense. They say: "Offense is the best defense." They...
...TIME assumes that President Eisenhower feels privately what he said publicly. He told his press conference that a committee appointed by the past Administration had submitted a report (Project Lincoln) which he had not studied in detail. No general conclusions, he said, had been reached on it in the National Security Council, the Cabinet or anywhere else. TIME does not dismiss as "trivial and inconsequential" the problem of defense and counterattack against Russia. But it does not hold that a group of scientists necessarily knows more about air defense than the military, nor does it believe that the U.S. will...
Still, such prophecies have been wrong before: Abraham Lincoln, on the basis of population growth in his day, estimated that the U.S would have a population of 250 million by 1930, and turned out to have predicted twice too many...
...taste for selfless public service showed up early. As a young lawyer making his way in Lincoln, Neb., he became counsel for the Lincoln Board of Trade and soon tangled with the railroads over discriminatory freight rates. He never asked for or received a fee in these freight-rate cases. "It is a good, steady job without pay," he wrote philosophically. Described on an 1889 list of eligible bachelors as an "antimonopoly agitator" with the "neatest mustache in Lincoln," Dawes fluttered the hearts of the local belles. But his own heart belonged then, and for the next 62 years...