Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Wilson's Cabinet Messrs. Daniels, Wilson, Houston and Burleson served together for eight continuous years. I served with them six years and eight months. Lane served with them longer. Thus there were six men in that one Cabinet who served together longer than the trio mentioned in the article. I suggest you correct your statement...
...fourth day of March, 1921, Woodrow Wilson, pathetic stood before the Capitol in the last act of his official life. Nearby, the saddened members of his Cabinet stood, saw their leader broken by struggle and paralysis; heard a man they did not admire take the oath of office of President of the U. S. Through their minds must have flashed memories of the glorious days of 1913, when the party of freckle-faced Jefferso and hard-cider Jackson came back to power. Happy days. . . . Josephus Daniels laughing in the first meeting of the Cabinet "Isn't it great...
...Wilson went to No. 2340 S Street to die. His Cabinet scattered to their distant homes whence they had been so glamorously summoned. Mild-mannered Albert Sidney Burleson, Postmaster General (1913-21) was off to Austin, Tex., to build up & neglected law practice; behind him he left the days when he was overlord of mails, telephone and telegraph, when cables could be confiscated at his command. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy (1913-21), no longer master of Admirals, went back to the sleepy North Carolina town of Raleigh. There he shifted from cutaway to a well-worn coat, settled...
Meanwhile, Lawyer William Gibbs McAdoo, Secretary of tha Treasury under Wilson (1913-18), began not only to earn money but also to snatch for the mantle hia father-in-law had dropped. He missed it, rent the Democratic party. That other William, Bryan the Great Commoner, died in Dayton, Tenn., still denying his descent from long-tailed ancestors; with him vanished a sonorous power, which, for nearly 30 years had sometimes led and had always disturbed the Democratic party...
Last week Wilson's Cabinet seemed all at once to emerge from the shadows. From his engrossing paper, the Raleigh News and Observer, Josephus Daniels came, an infectious farmer-boy grin on hia gentle face, his thin unruly hair waving more thinly than of yore. In Washington to attentive audiences he propounded Democratic doctrine while he told them how to make an enlightened choice of a Presidential nominee. He said: "Fashions change in candidates as in dress. It is not probable we will go back to the Jefferson knee breeches or to Jackson in his fighting clothes...