Word: logs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story begins in a Kentucky log cabin with one window, one door and a dirt floor. Lying on a pallet of cornhusks and bearskins, on Feb. 12, 1809, a slight, dark, grey-eyed woman with an accented chin and high cheekbones is delivered of a boy baby. A neighbor's kid runs down the road to see. "What you goin' to name him, Nancy?" Nancy Hanks Lincoln says, "Abraham, after his grandfather. . . . Be keerful, Dennis, fur you air the fust boy he's ever seen...
...involve other issues. It may affect the whole legislative program in Congress through log-rolling by the farm bloc. It is likely to be an important factor in the Congressional elections next fall. Its influence may go even further...
...bland and serene. Probably the greatest question for the coming year in domestic commerce is whether the existing volume of building construction can be maintained. Undoubtedly direct orders for building materials, as well as the spendings by the many prosperous members of the industry, have proved a huge "back log" to the general prosperity. It also seems certain that any sharp cessation in building would prove hampering to the general course of industry and trade. This point is a good one to watch for in the numerous "outlooks for 1926" about to be revealed to the public by prominent business...
...come to my desk and I note in your Business & Financy department (Page36) under the caption "Bankers' Convention" a short sketch of the life of Oscar Wells, now President of the American Bankers' Association. Quoting from this sketch : "Born in a lopsided Missouri log cabin, Mr. Wells had tilled the soil, attended an obscure college...
...valiantly at their bootstraps throughout the land were again encouraged by the Association's annual bow in their direction.-For President of the A. B. A. was chosen the noted Alabama banker, Oscar Wells, President of the First National Bank of Birmingham. Born in a lopsided Missouri log cabin, Mr. Wells had tilled the soil, attended an obscure college, and risen from the springboard of his uncle's bank to be first Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Tex. He is rubicund yet determined; his rise has not been too meteoric; he has been heard...