Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Look at the bosses of Tammany Hall," cried George Washington Plunkitt. "What magnificent men! To them New York City owes pretty much all it is today . . . What names in American history compare with them, except Washington's and Lincoln's?" Some notes on some of Tammany's "magnificent...
...seem to see that Moral Re-Armament ... is a very wise investment for any government in the free world. Your U.S. re-education program after the war told us about great Americans like Lincoln and Jefferson, but I did not find a clue then . . . When I was put in an Allied jail as a Hitler Youth leader-I celebrated my 19th birthday there-it did not help much either. I'll always be grateful for the Marshall Plan aid because it saved my little brother's life and millions of Germans from starvation. But by giving...
...ground that taxpayers' dollars should not provide roofs for Communists or their friends. Some tenants, in Washington, Baltimore and New York, refused to sign the oath and were threatened with eviction. Among them were Doris and John Rudder, who occupy a two-bedroom apartment in Washington's Lincoln Heights project...
...AUTO MODELS will be previewed earlier this year. Lincoln will lead the parade by showing its redesigned 1956 model to dealers this week, will have the first car in dealers' showrooms early in September...
...leaders on how he proposed to employ that philosophy at Geneva, and he promised them "frequent progress reports" through cables to Vice President Richard Nixon. Late into one night he sat with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in the second-floor study of the White House, where Abraham Lincoln used to read the Bible every morning before breakfast, and finished battening down the U.S. position...