Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What a fitting article for you to publish on the day following Lincoln's birthday. As history has revealed Lincoln to be the Negroes' Moses, I doubt not that Martin Luther King Jr. will be their Joshua...
Shame on TIME. If Nehru was wrong, Abe Lincoln was wrong...
Firmly grasping the coattails of the great man as he swept along to certain victory were the local candidates of his corruption-ridden party. Like U.S. politicians suddenly seeking to "get right with Lincoln" before Election Day, many Congress partisans, grown fat in office, forgot their bank rolls, their comfortable power and their American cars to recall the humility of Founding Father Mahatma Gandhi. Tailors in a dozen cities found themselves facing a run on khadi, the homespun cloth that Gandhi wore. Untouchables in village market squares were elbowed aside by candidates eager to drink at their untouchable wells. Some...
Then Sukarno got to the real hooker: his long-cherished plan to include Communists in both the Cabinet and the prospective National Council. To justify the Communist presence, he echoed one of his heroes, Abraham Lincoln, in a Biblical reference. "A house divided against itself cannot stand," he intoned. "How can we ignore a group which won 6,000,000 votes in the general election...
...houses and skyscrapers are the new concert halls and opera houses going up to keep pace with the ever-growing music audience. In the U.S., Architects Wallace Harrison and Max Abramovitz are at work on plans for a new home for the Metropolitan Opera Co. in Manhattan's Lincoln Square development. A $2,000,000 opera house has been projected for Colorado Springs by Architect Jan Ruhtenberg which features sculptural shell concrete forms with adjustable walls that can be thrown wide open to empty a full house (3,000) in 1½ minutes. Abroad the boom resounds even louder...