Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country among them. It is for us, together, to determine whether men shall continue to live in freedom and in dignity or whether they are to become mere vassals of an all-powerful state." Then, while a U.S. officer was still translating, the President moved to his bubble-top Lincoln (which had been sent over by ship and bore a French diplomatic plate...
...Briefing State Department correspondents last week on the Indonesian crisis, Press Officer Lincoln White took extraordinary pains to praise the work of U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia John M. Allison, 52. Behind-the-scenes reason: Old Far East Hand Allison had already written out his resignation in protest against a series of United Press stories from Washington saying that his reporting on the Indonesian crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS) was inadequate. Allison's Washington friends suspected that Allison's Washington rivals were planting the stories to undercut him. To buoy him up, Secretary of State Dulles cabled Allison a personal...
Only last year Indonesia's handsome, personable President Sukarno came to Washington, talking largely of Abraham Lincoln, the rights of man, and his devotion to democracy and the West. Overwhelmed by his sentiments and his charm, Washington's National Press Club gave him a standing ovation. Last week Sukarno was displaying his devotion to the West by energetically trying to boot out of his country all Westerners of Dutch citizenship, with never a backward thought for their rights or their properties...
...freshman squash team lost to an older and more experienced Lincoln's Inn Society team 4 to 1 yesterday at Hemenway Gymnasium. First man, Tony Lake, won in five games, 15-12, 6-15, 11-15, 15-8, 15-7, for Harvard's only victory...
Bond was president of Lincoln University for 12 years. He is the author of The Education of the Negro in the American Social Order and Education in Alabama, A Study in Cotton and Steel. While at Lincoln, he became one of the nation's experts on Negro education...