Word: lincolnization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...further than most in both diagnosis and prescription. Brooke, who repudiated the Goldwater campaign in 1964, charges that the G.O.P. is suffering from leadership anemia, which in turn has produced "poor programs." It has "all but exiled" minority groups, conducted "campaign-by-slogan," betrayed the heritage of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt...
...engineers with a $100,000 savings plan that is above and beyond normal retirement benefits. In Cincinnati, General Electric is offering present workers bonuses of up to $200 for every new employee they successfully recruit. Monsanto has started running help-wanted ads on TV in Dayton. Ford's Lincoln-Mercury assembly plant in St. Louis is using spot radio commercials, has set up portable employment offices at several shopping centers...
...looping changeup, was the top pitcher at the start of last season before McCandlish began to develop. McCandlish finished the year with a 5-2 record; Scott was 6-5. Also around are juniors Paul Thornton and Larry Melfa, who saw spot action last year, and sophomores Bob Lincoln, Tom Munzel, and Jim Sersich...
...been a somewhat clubby affair, and largely succeeded in putting it under party control. More important, he sought to establish the concept of the President as the representative of the whole nation. The Jacksonian concept did not immediately prevail. During the Civil War, the Senate was subservient to Lincoln. But with war's end and Lincoln's death, it rapidly reasserted itself and achieved its pinnacle of power if not prestige. Its leaders were party bosses and spoilsmen; in the burgeoning economy of the Reconstruction Era, many a robber baron found that a state legislature could be bought...
Italy was finally united in 1870 under the House of Savoy. The unity was perhaps inevitable, but without Garibaldi the Risorgimento would have lacked a popular hero. He was a good commander of men; Abraham Lincoln even offered him an army corps with the Union forces. (Garibaldi turned him down; he wanted supreme command and immediate abolition of slavery.) He was, however, too much of an innocent to be a good administrator. He was installed only briefly as "Dictator" of Sicily. Yet if the prophet-in-arms was a nuisance in his own country, he received great honor elsewhere...