Word: wilson
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Well might the Semitic press say this, and well might citizens of all creeds re-echo praise of a man whose knowledge of the law and understanding of the "rights of man" is unsurpassed. In 1916 President Wilson appointed him to the Supreme Court in the face of biting criticism. People said: "Yes, he is brilliant, but he is biased. We do not want prejudiced labor advocates in the Supreme Court...
Recent researches at Wesleyan, Princeton and Yale have revealed the fact that Woodrow Wilson, idealist, man of destiny, political philosopher, was once an eager football strategist. In 1878 he coached a Princeton eleven which defeated both Yale and Harvard and won the first of the "Big Three" championships (see p. 32). Then he went to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., officially as a history professor-but little time was lost in making him a member of the football advisory board. Soon Wesleyan teams began to baffle their cumbersome rush-line opponents with crafty off-tackle plunges, with neat crisscross plays...
After Dramatists Page, Gerard, Tumulty, House, comes Dramatist David Franklin Houston, onetime (1913-20) Secretary of Agriculture; thereafter (1920-21) Secretary of the Treasury, starring War President Wilson. Evidence appears that Secretary Houston stood high in the intimacy of the chief actor whom he served; was heard with respect above other voices at rehearsals; was telephoned for counsel in the night watches, after at least one performance...
...Wilson wished me to call. ... I told her I had a cold. . . . She replied that . . . she would take a chance if I would. . . . She said the President wished me to be Secretary of the Treasury. ... I said 'I will dig stumps for him,.' . . . She said, 'That is very interesting. That is just what the President said you would...
...EIGHT YEARS WITH WILSON'S CABINET-David F. Houston- Doubleday, Page & Co. 2 vols...