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...Mint will be well stocked with bright new copper coins. On the face will be the familiar, haggard profile. On the reverse side will be a new front view of the Lincoln Memorial, a rearrangement of the old words: "One Cent." "United States of America." "E Pluribus Unum...
Stumping the backwoods during one of his presidential campaigns, Andrew Jackson decided to impress his bumpkin constituents with his scholarship, let fly in bear-shaped tones with all the Latin he knew: "E pluribus unum, my friends, sine qua non, ne plus ultra, multo in parvo!" Applause resounded for miles; Jackson not only won the election, but also got an honorary LL.D. Or so says Allen Walker Read, associate professor of English at Columbia University, who tucked tongue in cheek and presented choice samples of fractured Latin in an address to the Linguistic Society of America...
...folding money, the motto "In God We Trust," which made its debut on the 2? piece of 1864 and is imprinted on all current U.S. coins except the buffalo nickel. Two years ago Congress ordered the motto added to greenbacks, last year made it - instead of E Pluribus Unum -the nation's official motto...
...were the plays about the Mulligan Guards, broad satirical spoofs on the pseudo-military, semipolitical marching companies of the period, formed by immigrant groups who were blackballed from the snobbish regular militia. The hero, Dan Mulligan played by Harrigan, had two mottoes: "Erin Go Bragh" and "E Pluribus Unum " He was so Irish that he thought Lafayette's real name was Lafferty, and so American that he razed a Sixth Ward barber pole because it was painted in the colors of a German flag instead of the Stars and Stripes. For the rest, Harrigan and Hart relied on "knockdown...
...Ordered, in the House, the motto "In God We Trust" to be inscribed on all new greenbacks, although that is not the official national motto ("E pluribus unum" is). "In God We Trust" has been used on coins for almost a century, never on bills...