Word: polk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grey stone, round-arched National Presbyterian Church at Connecticut and N Street, eight blocks north of the White House. Formerly known as the Church of the Covenant, it is considered one of Washington's more fashionable places of worship, whose pewholders over the years included Presidents Jackson, Pierce, Polk, Grant, Cleveland and Buchanan. Baptist Harry Truman worshiped in its "President's pew" on each opening of Congress. Its pastor, the Rev. Dr. Edward L. R. Elson, who served as chaplain to the XXI Corps during World War II and is a friend of Ike's, calls...
...POLK San Antonio, Texas...
...volume of Shakespeare's works and a book on his hobby, harmony and composition, in addition to the Bible that Briggs brought for him. Ironically, Briggs also brought the first word to Oatis that the Overseas Press Club in the U.S. had awarded him the George Polk Memorial Award for "courage, integrity and enterprise"-for the same kind of reporting that the Reds had called "spying." The State Department cautiously pointed out that the interview should not be construed as indicating that Oatis was any nearer to regaining his freedom than before...
...greatest addition to this country that has ever been made. They tried to impeach him for that, said Harry Truman, if he remembered correctly. Then there was a gentleman by the name of Tyler who agreed to annex Texas. And there were other gentlemen by the names of Polk, Lincoln and Roosevelt who exercised their powers to meet emergencies...
...Zachary Taylor was a professional soldier who had never voted. Franklin Pierce, who beat Winfield Scott, was a citizen-soldier like Harry Truman, but his war record was not nearly so good as Truman's. He enlisted as a private in the Mexican War, and President Polk, an old friend, promptly promoted him to brigadier-general. Pierce fell off his horse, sprained his knee and fainted at the battle of Contreras, fainted again the next day at the battle of Churubusco. No less a writer than Nathaniel Hawthorne (another old friend) said this showed how America's battles...