Word: lincolnization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western Power & Gas (694,000 telephones) of Lincoln, Neb., headed by Chairman-President Judson Large, controls eleven operating companies scattered from Worthington, Minn., to Tallahassee...
...Romney likes to say-and he said it again last week in Cincinnati-he is "as conservative as the Constitution, as progressive as Teddy Roosevelt, and as liberal as Mr. Lincoln." He has yet to show unequivocally which Romney is for real...
...member of the Harvard Law-Grad Democrat Club charged yesterday that outside pressure was responsible for the club's decision not to pay George Lincoln Rockwell his traveling expenses for last Monday's speech...
...Presidents should be hero material, but not too many have turned people on. America's most unequivocal hero, if somewhat dutifully admired, is George-Washington, who has the built-in title of father of his country. Far more beloved is Lincoln-perhaps because he was ugly, because he was born poor, because he was funny, but most of all because he carried doubts and uncertainties in the lines of his face but still was able to make great decisions...
...equivalent to other nations' heroes. Britain's Wellington, France's Napoleon, Russia's Peter the Great are national heroes, who specifically did something for the greater glory of the nation and can be claimed by no other country. But the U.S.'s Washington and Lincoln, Wilson and Kennedy are celebrated for the ideals they championed. They reaffirm the American idea of itself as a nation dedicated not to power but to ideals. In that sense, the U.S. needs heroes more than ever...