Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defeat & Death. While his paper prospered, his own political star rose. He served as a state assemblyman and lieutenant governor, helped start the Republican Party by writing one of its first statements of principles. Lincoln came to rely on him so much that Raymond managed his 1864 re-election campaign. Lincoln called him "my lieutenant general," and backed Raymond's own successful campaign for Congress...
...actively recognized by everybody as a clear & present danger. When the U.S. tried to revoke Schneiderman's citizenship, as a Communist, the late Wendell L. Willkie successfully defended him before the U.S. Supreme Court, describing him as a man with a "strong social urge," and arguing that Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson also "talked of revolution under certain circumstances." Now Schneiderman is in jail, waiting to stand trial in California with his fellow Reds on the familiar charge: conspiring to teach and advocate the overthrow of the U.S. Government...
Honest Bob. In High Point, N.C., after a friend squared the $9 he owed on bad checks, Robert Denny was freed from jail just in time to play his role of Abraham Lincoln in the town's historical pageant...
Fresh Pasture. Last week, 1,000-odd people in dust-covered cars drove up a dirt road in Lincoln Forest for the annual meeting at Nogal Mesa. Four times a day they filled the rough pine tabernacle (which ranchers built themselves two years ago) to pray and listen to Brother Hoyt Boles, a hefty, plain-spoken Presbyterian from Denton, Texas, and Brother Bob Goodrich, a Methodist from Dallas. There was no shouting or breast-beating. Even conversions came quietly, with only the exchange of a firm handclasp between minister and convert...
...policy of favoring family-size farms dates from the Homestead Act of 1862 (President Abraham Lincoln) and was reaffirmed in the Reclamation Act of 1902 (President Theodore Roosevelt...