Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drunk by a prosperity which has made us so indifferent that, the gates being left unguarded, the domestic enemy has entered and taken every salient and every trench. What has the country gained at home?. . . The crassest of materialism reigns in Washington by grace of Woodrow Wilson's plunge into the War, and where materialism is there sits corruption. The Denbys, the Falls, the Daughertys, the Dohenys, now all condemned by one court or another, are some of the responses to the appeals for war, to the setting free of the passions that war spells...
...early days of the World War, while President Wilson patiently exchanged notes with German diplomats, hundreds of Americans, many of them university men, shipped to France. There they entered ambulance field services with the French Army, served so valiantly that large numbers came back with the Croix de Guerre. Last week, Major W. C. Koenig, of the military staff of the U. S. Embassy at Paris, announced that the U. S. will soon take care of its own ? the men who served with the French Army are to be made eligible for Government pensions...
John Barton Payne, Chairman of the American Red Cross and Secretary of the Interior under Wilson (1920-21): "In Bulgaria my train chugged, halted, chugged on. Peasants cheered me at every station. At Sofia, King Boris received me with gratitude. I am now on a good will tour of the world. I fell ill and King Boris' personal physician attended...
Died. James Smith Jr., 75, one-time (1893-99) U. S. Senator from New Jersey; in Newark, N. J., from the infirmities of age. In 1910 he nominated Woodrow Wilson for Governor of New Jersey and was then politically crushed by him in two historic battles...
...HARVARD Thomas 2b. c.f. Burns Richbourg r.f. r.f. Jones Moore 3b, 3b. Zarakov J. Smith c.f. l.f. Lord Brown l.f. 1b. Tobin Fournier 1b. 2b. Ullman Bancroft s.s. c. Chauncey Taylor c. s.s. Sullivan Edwards p. p. Cutts or Booth Game called at 3 o'clock. Umpires, Wilson and Dineen...