Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Ward, chairman, and Miss Goodwin, T. D. Cabot and Miss Billings, S. R. Droppers and Miss Wilson, A. B. Frenning and Miss Hester Walker, W. H. Goodwin and Miss. Scudder, C. S. Howard and Miss Adamowska, A. Robey and Miss Jocelyn Parker, L. B. Sanderson, B. F. Wilson and Miss Cheney...
...Batcheldeer and Miss Sawyer, R. B. Chrisman and Miss Winifred Johnson, R. G. Ellinger and Miss Rankin, J. W. Glynn and Miss Glynn, W. E. Harris and Miss Shaw, L. R. Merchant and Miss Dennison, J. H. Orr and Miss Orr, R. W. Shaw and Miss Copland, C. L. Wilson and Miss Wright
President Wilson's Boston speech, which touched upon rather than described or discussed the League of Nations, was a straightforward, manful appeal to high motives and farsight in public policy, which is the President's trump, and apparently the highest in the pack. He treated a combination of nations, on substantially the basis of the document that has been circulated throughout the world, as a foregone conclusion. Otherwise he said, the European war would have been fought in vain; the blood of America's sons would have been given in vain; the European peace will be made in vain...
...that concession we get two great privileges. The first is an assurance against the return of the frightful conditions which led to the present war, into which we were forced whether' we would or no. In the second place, the vast influence of the United States, about which President Wilson spoke so feelingly, at Mechanics Building will be permanently recognized; and we shall be in a position to press peace and democracy upon the rest of the world. When men argue that we are thus putting the destinies of the United States out of our hands, they mean that there...
...There is no nation in Europe that suspects the motives of the United States." This fact was to President Wilson the most important and the most wonderful of his impressions gathered abroad...