Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like a wild, snorting lion. In December, many a critic predicted a do-nothing session. "It will be lucky," said some, "if it passes the appropriation bills." As March 4 approached, it appeared that this session, unfamed, unsung, had accomplished more than any short session of Congress since Woodrow Wilson's first administration and seldom missed an opportunity to defy, vex, prod the Calvin Coolidge Adminstration. Important doings...
...popular defeat. Then he returned to his law practice, sharpened his tongue and his wits. In 1911 it was a polished lawyer and not a politician, a satirist and not a reformer, who entered the U. S. Senate. He has been there ever since, despite combined efforts of Woodrow Wilson's friends and Republicans to oust...
Weight HARVARD BROWN 115-pound class Massell Flint 125-pound class Turner Rustigan 135-pound class Lifrak Cashman 145-pound class Corson Goulding 158-pound class Wood Spellman 175-pound class Howe A. Cornsweet Unlimited class Wilson H. Cornsweet...
...Representative from Virginia, 1903-18, President Wilson's Secretary of the Treasury, 1918-20; Senator from Virginia since...
...know is the difference in color of lights. Dealers. Road agents selected Ford dealers on the basis of good habits, home town standing and enthusiasm for the car itself. Ford dealers could sell only Ford cars. "Influences" that made Ford stock worth relatively little in 1913: Woodrow Wilson's threat to hang commercial malefactors "on a gallows as high as Haman"; New York's impeached Governor William Sulzer's threats against stock speculations; Theodore Roosevelt's trumpetings at "malefactors of great wealth."-Testimony of Arthur O. Choate, Manhattan investment banker...