Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the returns were all in, Ford Motor Co., which won last year's test with a Lincoln, was the winner again. Its Mercury Monterey racked up 59.712 ton-miles per gallon (weight of car and passengers in tons, multiplied by mileage, and divided by gallons of gas consumed). On the basis of actual miles per gallon, a figure that means much more to the average motorist, the four-cylinder Henry J Corsair took the cake with 30.856; Studebaker's six-cylinder Champion was second with 27.822 miles per gallon...
...Dick Lincoln's boat will race the big one, with Lowell Laporte's crew in the jayvee spot. Varsity boating are Lindy Watkins, 7; Ted House, 6; Randy Seed, 5; Ray Burns, 4; Steve Leland, 3; Bob Lofgren, 2; Joe Brown, bow. Bruce Williams...
There was no question that past Presidents, in time of crisis, have stretched their vaguely defined constitutional powers. When defense production was threatened in 1941, Franklin Roosevelt seized aircraft and shipbuilding companies. A famous example was Abraham Lincoln's suspension of the writ of habeas corpus in the Civil War. "My oath to preserve the Constitution," he explained later, "imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that Government, that Nation, of which the Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the Nation and yet preserve the Constitution...
...when, on your cover of March 24, I saw that grin, under those horn rimmed specs, under that coonskin cap, with the coon's little tail adangling, I thought: heaven help us, is that a potential President of these United States? . . . Look at pictures of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Jackson, Webster-any really great American. You don't see those men grinning as if life were a big haha...
...Washington, Contralto Marian Anderson announced that she would do a repeat performance of her famous 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert in honor of the late Harold L Ickes, who offered her the use of the Memorial steps after the D.A.R barred her from singing in Constitution Hall...