Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five days before tomorrow's lightweight crew regatta Crimson Coach Bert Haines switched the strokes of his varsity and J.V. boats. Sophomore Dick Lincoln will be in the stroke seat for the first 150-pound crew when it meets Yale, Columbia, Cornell, M.I.T., Penn, and Princeton in the E.A.R.C. races on the Charles at 4 p.m. tomorrow...
...First Word of this extraordinary, unauthorized order reached Lincoln through the newspapers...
...retain Maryland, Kentucky and other border states in the Union ... He issued an order altering Fremont's proclamation so that it should conform to and not "transcend" the act of Congress ... A storm of indignation broke out throughout the North . . . Outraged Abolitionists clamored for the impeachment of Lincoln; and Fremont supporters proposed him as Lincoln's successor...
Eventually President Lincoln was compelled, because of the general's provocative conduct, to relieve him of his command...
...Cleveland's Lincoln Electric Co. (arc welding) is building a new $8,500,000 plant with two miles of overhead "railroad," eliminating all manual handling of material. In mockup tests, President James F. Lincoln has found a saving of 10% in direct labor costs...