Word: wilson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...choosing General Pershing for Commander of the A. E. F., President Wilson chose well; few, if any, dispute that. And few dispute that the President's refusal to send General Wood to France even in command of a division, was, from General Wood's point of view, a snub. The snub may have been justified by the exigencies of the situation; that is a matter of opinion...
...Captain Adolphus Andrews, Naval Aide to the President displaced by Captain Wilson Brown, called to bid the President farewell before taking up his duties as adviser to the American delegation to the preliminary disarmament conference at Geneva...
...Maurice Low, suave Washington correspondent of the London Post (diehard Tory), suggested recently that the President's tobacco policy is different from any the Cabinet has seen this century. Roosevelt smoked not, nor did his Cabinet in Cabinet. Taft smoked not, but neither did he forbid it. Wilson also permitted smoking in Cabinet, although he did not indulge. Harding used cigarets (occasionally a pipe), passed cigarets to his ministers, but cigar smokers had to bring their own to Cabinet. Now President Coolidge likes domestic cigars. During the Cabinet sessions (Tuesdays and Fridays) there is on the long table...
...hesitate to ask my party associates what the Democratic party is here for? To join in these nefarious schemes? To unite with Mellon in all his demands? A few days ago my secretary (Hicklin Yates) defined a Democrat as one who worships at the shrine of Woodrow Wilson and votes with Andrew Mellon. The Republicans at least have a policy?even though it is a buccaneering expedition...
...sent for him. He assisted its general manager for two years, when the president of the Erie sent for him. In 1910, before he was 50, the B. & 0. sent for him again, this time to be president. His conduct of that line wag such that in 1917, President Wilson picked him to direct the biggest railroading job ever attempted in this country-integrating all U. S. lines under Federal control...