Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parade started with sad-faced Sam Zakman, 44, sometime union organizer and former Communist who was a commissar with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. "I always liked the organizing field," Zakman explained simply, although he admitted he "wasn't very successful at it." One day in 1950 Zakman approached one Sam Berger, then manager of an International Ladies Garment Workers Union local in New York, asked Berger to help him pick up a charter for a union. 'I had a family to support," said Zakman. "Here was a chance to organize a trade...
...while an uncle listened critically from the back of an empty auditorium. Moving on to the University of Saskatchewan, young Diefenbaker joined the ranks of the campus apprentice politicians who ran the debating society, heatedly argued national issues in a mock Parliament. He devoured political biographies (a special hero: Lincoln), won better-than-average marks and a forecast in the college magazine The Sheaf that he would some day lead the opposition in the House of Commons in Ottawa...
Also speaking, and commenting on his talk were a panel, including Charles C. Colby, professor emeritus of Geography at the University of Chicago; Lincoln Gordon, '34, William Ziegler Professor of International Economic Relations at Harvard Business School; Max F. Millikan, professor of Geography at MIT; and Gilbert F. White, professor of Geography at the University of Chicago...
...twelve, settled in Duluth, Minn., earned the nickname "Trotsky" in high school because of his spouting off in defense of Red Russia. He studied civil engineering at the University of Minnesota, where he was a big pro-Communist on the campus, and he fought with the Red-sponsored Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish civil war. In 1943 he joined the U.S. Army, rose from private to lieutenant, in 1945-47 was assigned to U.S. intelligence work in Austria...
...longtime board chairman of Starrett Brothers (later Starrett Brothers & Eken), builders of the Empire State Building and such other Manhattan landmarks as the Flatiron Building, Pennsylvania Railroad Station and the Plaza, Commodore and Biltmore hotels, as well as luxury hotels in other cities throughout the U.S., and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.; in Greenwich, Conn...