Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a spell as a reporter for City Editor Lincoln Steffens of the Commercial Advertiser and for the New York Sun, Cahan in 1902 became editor of the then struggling Forward, which he had helped found five years before. Cahan found a paper with a picayunish circulation of 6,000, full of tedious, dust-dry Socialist polemics, written in jabberwocky that few garment workers could understand...
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Mark died at last in 1865, shot by a guard in the alley back of Ford's Theater when he tried to rush in to stop the assassination of Abraham Lincoln...
...models, the new Packards have a luggage compartment almost twice as big, and an automatic shift (which is optional or standard depending on the model). With nine models in three different price ranges, Packard hopes to put up stiff competition against everything from the Pontiac class to the Lincoln and Cadillac. To do so, Packard has its work cut out. Last week, when it had hoped to get its new models off to a fast start, the company was shut down: the United Autoworkers-C.I.O. had struck for higher wages & pensions...
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