Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midpoint in the Civil War, some of Abraham Lincoln's fellow Republicans wanted him to dump Secretary of State Seward, as the "unseen hand" and "evil genius" who would not press for the immediate abolition of slavery. The dissidents, all congressional extremists, met secretly so as not to broadcast their lack of confidence in the Government at a perilous moment. Lincoln found out about the plot, maneuvered the extremists into backing down...
...happy cry was no exaggeration. The oldest West Coast paper in continuous publication, the Oregonian, first printed as a weekly, grew up with the Northwest-and helped it grow by leading the campaigns for better schools and colleges and new industries. Though generally Republican from the days of Lincoln, the Oregonian has never stuck to a straight party line, has fought for such Democratic measures as federal aid to education, opposed such things as the Brannan Plan...
...cars. But last week, seeing a flood of price rises all around him, young Henry took his finger out of the hole in the dike. He boosted prices on the company's 1951 models an average of 5.5% (from $87.50 on the cheapest Ford to $185 on Lincoln Cosmopolitan convertibles). Same day, General Motors Corp. raised prices an average of almost 5% on its 1951 models. These were the first price boosts among the auto industry's Big Three in nearly two years. The reason, said both companies, was simply that their material and labor costs had scooted...
Historians went on doing solid work, but the year's big launching was Princeton's first volume of its projected 52-volume The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Allan Nevins completed his two-volume Emergence of Lincoln, which examined as if for the first time the crucial years 1857-61. Stewart Holbrook had the fine idea of tracking down the pioneers whose home towns were in New England, and produced a fascinating piece of Americana in The Yankee Exodus, while John Bakeless reproduced the look of the country as its first explorers saw it in The Eyes of Discovery...
...report is largely the work of Malcolm P. McNair, Lincoln Filene Professor of Retailling, Edmund P. Learned, professor of Business Administration, John V. Lintner, Jr., associate professor of Finance, and Edward C. Bursk, associate professor of Business Administration...