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...Bought by Abraham, the first of the patriarchs, as a burial place for his wife Sarah and himself (Genesis...
...actively recognized by everybody as a clear & present danger. When the U.S. tried to revoke Schneiderman's citizenship, as a Communist, the late Wendell L. Willkie successfully defended him before the U.S. Supreme Court, describing him as a man with a "strong social urge," and arguing that Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson also "talked of revolution under certain circumstances." Now Schneiderman is in jail, waiting to stand trial in California with his fellow Reds on the familiar charge: conspiring to teach and advocate the overthrow of the U.S. Government...
...policy of favoring family-size farms dates from the Homestead Act of 1862 (President Abraham Lincoln) and was reaffirmed in the Reclamation Act of 1902 (President Theodore Roosevelt...
...Sunbeam Mixmasters were cut from $46.50 to $26.59, and hundreds of other items were cut from 6% to 40%. Down the street, Macy's big rival posted its famed slogan: "Nobody but nobody undersells Gimbels," matched Macy's cuts. Across the East River, in Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus, prices went down just as fast...
...buying craze spread to items whose prices were not cut; housewives felt they had "saved" so much on loss leaders they spent freely on everything. Sales of women's shoes and muslin sheets were 200% above normal at Macy's. Storewide volume in Gimbels and Abraham & Straus jumped...