Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Messrs. Moore & Brush obtained the Marion Star at an exorbitant price from its onetime owner, Warren Gamaliel Harding (TIME, Feb. 25, 1924 et seq.). Among the Messrs. Moore & Brush's other newspapers is the Steubenville Herald-Star- the Herald part of which was once owned by Woodrow Wilson's father & grandfather...
...committee's resolution was something of a pardon as well as an endorsement. Ever since he "chawed" his cigars and hurled his epithets at the policies of Woodrow Wilson, Senator Reed has been regarded by Missouri Democrats as a renegade...
...last name caused reporters to query anxiously, scribble hastily. "Not the Grace Moore who sang in Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue, in Hitchy-Koo, in Up in the Clouds?" It was that same pretty girl, native of Jellicoe, Tenn., one-time music student at the Wilson-Green School at Chevy Chase. She had fled classroom and the First Baptist choir for the snapping footlights of Manhattan. George M. Cohan, alert actor-producer-play-wright, gave her audience & advice. The advice was to go into musical comedy. There, a Southern drawl, an arch manner and a pure voice carried...
...west entrance, a nave 500 feet long, 95 feet high. Under the apse, which is already finished at the foundation's east end, are three crypt chapels. In one of these, Bethlehem Chapel, Bishops of Washington have conducted cathedral services since 1912. Here are entombed the bodies of Woodrow Wilson, George Dewey, Henry Yates Satterlee (first bishop of Washington) Henry Vaughan (cathedral architect), and others. Episcopalians want Washington Cathedral to be the Westminster Abbey of the United States...
...Previous prizewinners have been Marian Nevins MacDowell (wife of the late Edward A. MacDowell) for establishing artist colony at Peterborough, N. H.; Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart for educational work in the South Carolina mountains; Miss Sara Graham Mulhali, for work in suppressing traffic in narcotics...