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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Wood returned to the U. S. Years passed ? years of labor, then years of disappointment. In 1917-18 there were, of course, the snubs from President Wilson. Europeans waited for General Wood to come at the head of the U. S. Armies. But the President would not even send him as the head of a brigade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: In Manila | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...stated last week that the Attorney General of Mexico is preparing to file a claim for $10,000,000 damages against the U.S. Government with the General Claims Commission now sitting at Washington, on the ground that the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico from 1909 to 1913, Mr. Henry Lane Wilson, instigated assassination of President Madero of Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Wild Charge | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...Indianapolis home Mr. Wilson said: "I had no more to do with the overthrow of Madero than Woodrow Wilson, and of course he had nothing to do with it. This was purely a manufactured charge made by a newspaper correspondent. In response to that charge I instituted suit against Norman Hapgood (then editor of Harper's Weekly), and among other things obtained a confession of judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Wild Charge | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...also praises the dancing of W. S. Wilson '27 as superior to any he has ever seen on an amateur stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "1776" HITS ROAD TOMORROW NIGHT | 4/15/1926 | See Source »

...solo, dancer, Scott Wilson beats anything seen on the college stage in a decade; what's more, the boy can act. What's more than that--if you insist on something more--his lady dancing partner, Mr. Courtland Gross, is almost as good. We don't know where Gross learned to dance, still less where he discovered the subtle secret of how women charm. One thing sure, he didn't learn it playing hockey on that team which administered such a satisfactory walloping to the gentlemen from Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth. As for Wilson, all the experts in such matters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Crew Captain and Author of "Deceit" Praises Pudding Show---Goofus, Colonial Saxophone, Intrigues | 4/15/1926 | See Source »

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