Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rich family tradition of public service. His ancestral hero is great-grandfather Jesse W. Fell, who trudged into Illinois with a knapsack over his shoulder in 1832. Jesse Fell was a lawyer who became a real-estate developer and city planner, and was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln. He was the first to describe Lincoln as presidential timber. A staunch Republican, Fell proposed the Lincoln-Douglas debates, and played an important part in the Lincoln-for-President campaign...
...Abraham Lincoln, captain of Illinois volunteers in the Black Hawk War of 1832, supported Professional Soldier Scott in the campaign...
...never got into a war when one of its nine general-Presidents was in the White House. As for dictatorship, the loudest accusations on this score were raised against civilians John Adams, Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt...
Getting culture into the Milton Berle show might have daunted even hardier men than NBC's executives. It was accomplished by having Milton go offstage while Vice President Alben Barkley came on, to talk about Abraham Lincoln. Howdy Doody was swung into line with a children's newsreel, and The Aldrich Family contributed its mite by devoting one show to a discussion of the basic types of English sentence structure...
Died. P. R. Crump, 104, Alabama's last veteran of the War Between the States; in Lincoln, Ala. Enlisting in the loth Alabama Regiment in 1863, he saw action in the Virginia campaign, witnessed General Lee's surrender...