Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What shall we call him? Coward, assassin, savage, murderer of women and babies? Or shall we consider them all as embodied in the word fiend, and call him Lincoln, the Fiend...
...wrote Virginia's Richmond Enquirer of the President of the U.S. in 1862. It was not unusual. Caught up in the passions of the era, the Northern Copperhead papers no less than the Southern press called Abraham Lincoln names that for venomous variety have been unsurpassed before or since in editorial tirades against a President-"The Ape,'' "Simple Susan," "Kentucky Mule," "Illinois Beast," "traitor," "lowborn, despicable tyrant," "cringing, crawling creature...
...Four Score & Ten." The deadly broadside re-echoes in a lively new book. Lincoln As They Saw Him (Rinehart; $6), in which Herbert Mitgang, an editor of the Sunday New York Times, shows in their own words how editorial writers and reporters viewed Lincoln at every stage of his public life. For all it tells of Lincoln with the fresh impact of the morning's paper, Mitgang's fat volume tells as much about the press from the withering perspective of history...
...everlasting promise of our own Declaration of Independence was what Lincoln declared it to be: liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope for the world for all future time...
...William Clay Ford, 31, whose sputtering Continental division was placed under Lincoln's wing three months ago, got a new job. He took over direction of Ford's overall styling program, which was one of the main jobs of Executive Vice President L. D. Crusoe, 61 (TIME, Oct. 8). until he had a heart attack...