Word: lincolns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. William A. Rockefeller, grandnephew of John Davison Rockefeller; by Mrs. Florence Lincoln Rockefeller, his childhood playmate; at Bridgeport, Conn. Said she: ''My husband became addicted to strong drink. He gradually slipped...
...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...
...something more than natural animal spirits." Moreover, the agents saw liquor, bought liquor, drank liquor. One of the agents was subsequently approached by the manager of the Wardman Park Hotel (affiliated with the Carlton Club), who protested that high Dry officials were his good friends, including Brig.-Gen. Lincoln Clark Andrews, then Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition...
...Also a Harvard graduate, also a lawyer, also a President's son was the late great Robert Todd Lincoln who died last year. Modest, retiring, he gained fame through his deeds rather than his name. Longtime head of Pullman Co., he was also director of many a Chicago corporation. He was onetime Secretary of War, onetime Ambassador to Great Britain...
Midwest: Notre Dame v. Wisconsin at Chicago; Northwestern v. Minnesota at Evanston; Iowa v. Illinois at Iowa City; Michigan v. Ohio State at Ann Arbor; Nebraska v. Pittsburgh at Lincoln...