Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conducted Tour. Harry Truman stayed away from the airport, but was waiting like an old friend on the south portico of the White House when Ike was driven up in a White House Lincoln. Together, the Chief Democrat and the Promising Republican posed for pictures until the President cracked to photographers: "Come on, I've gotto talk business to this man." They talked alone in the President's second-floor study for half an hour, talked another half-hour with Defense Secretary Robert Lovett, Army Secretary Frank Pace and J.C.S. Chairman General Omar Bradley. Then, defying all laws...
...only amateur 16-mm. film to represent Britain at the August festival in Venice. Meanwhile, the awesome Oxford Union had Illinois' chipper 28-year-old Howard E. Shuman as president, and the new literary editor of the magazine Cherwell was California's Peter S. Steffens, son of Lincoln Steffens. As for the select (16 members) Writers' Club, it had five U.S. members, including President Bynum Grten of Louisiana and Geoffrey Bush of 'Vermont, winner of the Isis short-story contest...
Sachs made a trip home to Russia in 1921 and came back a Communist, but he was publicly expelled by the party in 1931. The creed he now proclaims is "South Africa needs not Lenin, but Lincoln." Only last year, South Africa's supreme court ruled that he is not a Communist. To many, including influential conservative newspapers, the Malan government seemed less concerned with Sachs's being a Communist than with getting control of his and other trade unions, then forcing them to follow the Nationalist Party's apartheid (segregation) line...
Department store profits during 1951 fell of more sharply than those of almost any other type of big business, Malcolm P. McNair, Lincoln Filene Professor of Retailing, said yesterday. Compared with the previous year, the net dollar earnings suffered a 39 percent drop...
...CAREER WAS brilliant. He hurried through college in three years, and returned for a fourth as assistant in Santayana's fashionable philosophy course. Lincoln Steffens sought him out to help muckrake the politicians in Everybody's Magazine After a turn as a socialist reformer in Schenectady, he retired to the Maine woods to write A Preface to Politics. T. R. did an admiring review. When Herbert Croly founded the New Republic, it was inevitable that Walter Lippmann should be invited to become an editor. When Woodrow Wilson swung the New Freedom to the defense of the British Empire...