Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York and Jersey Cities formally opened the 9,250-ft. Holland vehicular tunnel connecting them under the Hudson River (TiME, Aug. 30, 1926). Aboard the yacht Mayflower, midstream in the Potomac, the President pressed the same gold telegraph key which President Wilson pressed in 1914 to blast open the Panama Canal. At the Coolidge touch, U. S. flags fell away from the ends of the Holland tubes. Officials of New Jersey streamed underground into New York and vice versa, followed in the first hour by 20,000 common citizens...
...counsels on the brief of the Bryce-Powell Club were J.S. Compton 3L., S.J. Elder 3L., Albert Langeluttig 3L., W.H. Neary 3L., D.V. Prugh 3L., and R.G. Wilson...
...Gerald Rufus Isaacs, Viscount Erleigh, only son and heir of the Marquess of Reading. His second daughter, Angela Mary, married (1922) Sir Neville Pearson, English newspaper proprietor and publisher. The only son of this Mond branch, Henry, chairman of the Mondson Chemical Co., married a Transvaal girl, Amy Gwen Wilson...
Engaged. Katherine Sedgwick Colby, daughter of Bainbridge Colby, Secretary of State under President Wilson, and Authoress Nathalie Sedgwick Colby (Green Forest, 1927); to one Frederick Prime Delafield of Manhattan...
...Died. Wilson D. Kenzie, 83, who on April 14, 1865, aged 21, saw President Abraham Lincoln assassinated, who later with a party of soldiers went in hot pursuit of Assassin John Wilkes Booth; at Baltimore...