Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wonder whether you intended to color your reference this week to "snubs" of General Wood by President Wilson with bias? Wilson had pretty good reasons for most of his appointments, and generally speaking he was intent on doing good. His prosecution of the War was hampered, as was Lincoln's, by smaller persons who wished to get the job under the control of the right political party. Although many Republicans worked hard and earnestly for victory under Wilson's leadership, some proposed a War Board, made up of Republicans, to take over the duties of the President and thus...
...Wilson's choice of a Commanding General was a fine one. Wilson's war operations surpassed on both land and sea anything that the world had thus far seen, not excepting those of Germany itself. Wilson was a man of peace, hated war. He did almost too well. They had not beaten him with the preparedness issue; the country was not prepared when the Republicans had turned it over to him; so they tried to make his decisions for him. He, declining the honor, is accused of snubbing! An unkind joke...
...Dance, C. S. Gross '27, and W. W. Wilson '27, stars of recent Hasty Pudding Show...
...list of speakers which is almost complete, contains among its most prominent names those of Professor Henry H. Tweedy, of Yale, Dr. Robert E. Speer, prominent missionary, and the Honorable J. Stitt Wilson, socialistic lecturer...
...list of speakers who have been secured so far follows: Honorable J. Stitt Wilson, Professor Henry H. Tweedy, Dr. Robert E. Speer, Francis P. Miller, Powers Hapgood, Henry P. Van Duson, Dr. George R. Baker, S. Wirt Wiley, John W. Macdonald, Clifford Brown, Professor S. Ralph Harlow, Sidney Levett, Morgan Noyes, Kingsley Birge, John R. Brush, Allan K. Chalmers, and William D. Barnes...