Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...easy? Let the list be reconsidered. Of the states which voted for Woodrow Wilson and which, in the above estimate, have so far been left to Governor Smith's credit, Democratic chances are weakess in Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Wyoming, all of whose votes total 39. Subtract 39 from Governor Smith's previous total of 266-the result is 227: Governor Smith is defeated...
...vast fiscal enterprise with Owen D. Young, Chairman of General Electric's directors. We, with Charles G. Dawes (Chicago banker, U. S. Vice President), organized the Dawes Plan of German Reparations payments (TIME, Dec. 20); and we were both members of the Second Industrial Conference called by President Wilson in 1919." Gloria Swanson, cinema actress, who married a marquis: "Some people accused me of giving blatant gold-digging advice when I told a New York World reporter the following: 'There are times when clothes are about the best investment that a woman can make. If, instead of bleakly...
...annual turnover. In 1920 Mr. Stone resigned. In 1921, on the occasion of the entombment of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery, began a "splurge of flowery writing" the like of which Mr. Stone would never have permitted. President Harding's death, Woodrow Wilson's death, the deaths of Rudolph Valentino, Floyd Collins and Luther Burbank, were cited as other points of departure for "flights of puerile fancy" by Associated Press "poets." The employment of Publicist Bruce Barton for his famed "human interest" interview with President Coolidge in the Adirondacks last summer was cited as an example...
Crew C. Stroke, Gray; 7, Renner; 6, Donaldson; 5, Blaikie; 4, Campbell; 3, Wintringham; 2, Wilson; bow, Alexander...
...Senate, after two days of heated discussion and speech making, voted to throw this country into the greatest struggle in modern history. Two days later, on April 6, 1917, we were formally at war. We had become "but one of the champions of the rights of mankind". President Wilson's words were taken up and echoed from one end of the world to another. We had declared war to end war; we were fighting not for dominion or for conquest, but in order that some day such strife should not be possible...