Articles and speeches, ca. 1920-1940.

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Articles and speeches, ca. 1920-1940.

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Article, What Would Lincoln Think? concerns how Abraham Lincoln would have viewed national conditions in 1940; untitled, undated speech or article on oratorial rivalry of Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas; The Universality of Lincoln, speech praising Lincoln, 4 edited versions; untitled speech on Lincoln and Peoria, Illinois, 5 edited versions and memo from unknown aid with ideas for Peoria speech.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Horner, Henry, 1878-1940

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Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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