Word: lincolns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert Church, Memphis millionaire, dictator of the "Lincoln Belt" which stretches darkly from Missouri, north and south, through Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio. Toward the close of the 1928 campaign all but six of the 25 leading Negro newspapers were calling for Smith's election. Puzzled and worried, Nominee Hoover summoned Millionaire Church to Washington, heard his grievances against Col. Mann and the "lily-whites," spoke a few soothing words. In the last week of the campaign most of the rebellious journals, at Church's command, changed front and Hooverized vociferously. But with Col. Mann still holding forth...
...absorbing tale that takes Mr. Grove from his first job as a waiter's assistant in a cheap restaurant through the cities, factories, and harvest fields of a large section of America. His bitterness in his futile early search for Abraham Lincoln and his contempt for the type of American he does find give way finally to a rational appreciation and clear vision of America...
...famed for his Gothic cloister in uptown New York City, where medieval sculpture and ornament abound. His works are scattered worldwide, varying in subject from The Descent from the Cross in Paris, to The God Pan on Columbia University's campus. In London stands his gaunt Abraham Lincoln, focus of livid controversy, of which Theodore Roosevelt said: "I have always wished I might...
University teams B and C defeated their respective opponents, the Walkover Club and Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard Freshman lost to Lincoln's Inn Society in the regular weekly matches of the state inter-club squash racquets tournament on Saturday afternoon. Team B, playing without A. C. Ingraham '31 who performed brilliantly in the state singles tourney until he was forced to withdraw because of a pulled tendon, blanked the Walkever Club racquetmen by a 5 to 0 score...
...Lincoln's Inn Society defeated Harvard Freshmen, 3 to 2. A. W. Patterson '32 defeated G. Goodyear (LI) 10-15, 15-9, 15-12, 6-15, 15-7; Beekman Pool '88 defeated P. Trafford (LI) 15-11, 15-7, 15-9; J. C. Cooley (LI) defeated F. O. Canfield '82 10-15, 10-15, 15-12, 15-14, 15-5; P. Huntington 18-17 defeated R. C. Champollion '82 18-17, 15-16, 15-12, 12-16, 17-15; T. Hall Jr. defeated P. G. Livermore...