Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Tariff Commission appointments offer illuminating evidence of the spirit that might be expected to govern President Wilson's administrative appointments if he were free to ignore or defy considerations of partisan expediency. .... The chairman, Professor Taussig is one of the most distinguished tariff authorities in the world, and is far and away the most eminent tariff authority in the United States. Seekers after exorbitant tariff favors will revile Professor Taussig as a theorist. He is a theorist who will very clearly see through the greedy devices by which greedy interests have hitherto sought to delude Congress. He is also...
...following members of the University wrestling team were awarded their "W H T": Stanley Burnham '19, of Gloucester; Eugene Leon Coates Davidson '17, of Washington, D. C.; Harry Louis Ettlinger '18, of St. Louis, Mo.; Horace Goodwin Killam '18, of Cambridge; Roger Wilson Killam '19, of Cambridge; Orlando Lindesmith '17, of Owatonna, Minn.; William Brackett Snow, Jr., '18, of Stoneham; and Harold Raymond Caley '17, of Princeton, Minn., manager...
Professor George G. Wilson, the Harvard authority on international law, asserts that we are not in a state of war with Germany, no matter what outrages she has committed upon us, because "the United States and Germany are both parties to (III.) Hague Convention, 1907, Article I, of which is as follows: "The Contracting powers recognize that hostilities between themselves must not commence without previous and explicit warning, in the form either of a reasoned declaration of war or of an ultimatum with conditional declaration...
...through at least 12 years. To make sure that the Commission works in no partisan spirit, the law provides that not more than three members shall be members of any one political party. It is perhaps worth noting that among the six persons appointed on the Commission by President Wilson two are Harvard men, myself and E. P. Costigan '99, and two are Yale men, Mr. Culbertson and Mr. Kent...
...been announced that Professor George Grafton Wilson, Ph.D., LL.D., of the Department of International Law, will act as presiding officer at the debate between Yale and the University in Sanders Theatre next Friday night. The question will be "Resolved, that after the present war the United States should so far depart from her traditional policies as to participate in the organization of a league of powers to enforce peace...