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...Lincoln has had a bitter literary history. Herndon, who had been Lincoln's law partner in Springfield for 22 years, began collecting his biographical material immediately after Lincoln's assassination. As monumental books on Lincoln appeared-Lamon & Black's outspoken Life, the ten-volume study of Nicolay & John Hay-Herndon read them eagerly but shook his head because the figures they presented were not the Lincoln he knew...
...public showing of the swastika. To Germans, however, it was thrilling to read of the prompt, virile reaction of hyphenated German-Americans in New York to Mayor LaGuardia. "We are prepared to meet violence with violence!" roared the Fuhrer of the Friends of New Germany in South Brooklyn. Karl Nicolay. With apple-cheeked youths uniformed somewhat like Realmleader Hitler's Special Guard policing the Brooklyn aisles, Acting National Fuhrer Josef Schuster of America's Friends of New Germany de nounced Mayor LaGuardia in unprintable terms, shouted in defense of Realmleader Hitler, "The only people who are tyrannized over...
...become in recent years a burden. It was after the death in 1881 of Editor Josiah Gilbert Holland (cofounder with Roswell Smith) that Century reached the zenith of its editorial command. Then, under Editor Richard Watson Gilder, it scored its journalistic triumph with the serial life of Lincoln, by Nicolay & Hay, and a Civil War battle series written by the most important participants. Circulation reached its peak of 150,000 in 1906. Followed a gentle but inexorable decline which not even energetic Editor Glenn Frank (now president of University of Wisconsin) could completely check...
...reading Thayer's Life and Letters of John Hay, I notice that both Hay and Nicolay used your favorite term, "Tycoon," as an affectionate nickname for President Lincoln. Do you know of any earlier use of the word...
...Nicolay and Hay's Lincoln states that Robert spent the evening at the White House gossiping with Major Hay. The party at Ford's included Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln, Miss Harris and Major John R. Rathbone, daughter and stepson of Senator Ira Harris of New York...