“A braham Lincoln in 1934” was Hertz, recognized authority on Lincoln and his life, who spoke yesterday afltenoon over radio station WINS, under the auspices of the Women’s League of the United Synagogue.
Riviswing the biographies of Lincoin that had been written since his assassination in 1865, Mr, Hertz leclared that only in 1909 was there “a real awakening to the g#atness of Abraham Lincoln.” Only since then, he said, has there been any real attempt at rese# into lincoln’s life, and the re# discoveries have done much to refute the attacks made on the ma# tyred president during his life.
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