Word: tolstoian
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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Wilson victory was rewarded with the highest Cabinet post. The reward bristled with trouble. His first struggle secured government rather than banker control of the Federal Reserve. Then, as Prince of Peace, he effected anti-war pacts with 30 nations, but his Tolstoian principles were put severely to the test by the Mexican situation, by the California-Japan dispute over property ownership, and finally by the Great War. His influence over Wilson was early supplanted by Colonel House, who pulled strings, machinated quietly, buzzed around in one department after the other...
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