Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last day, from noon when the debate began to supper time when the vote was taken, the galleries of the Senate were crowded to capacity and the halls were filled with watchers eagerly hoping someone would vacate a seat to make room for them. In the executive gallery Mrs. Wilson watched intently until she saw the Court accepted...
...those Senators who in 1920 voted on the question of entering the League of Nations, 38 were present and voting last week. Eleven of them were Democrats who voted against the League of Nations because President Wilson was opposed to the reservations attached to the resolution for League entrance. All the rest of the 38, with only two exceptions, voted for or against the Court as they had voted for or against the League of Nations. The two who voted differently were Norris of Nebraska, who voted against the League and for the Court, and Watson of Indiana, who voted...
...have never been whipped under a lash in my life and by the eternal gods I never expect to be. Under this cloture lash I will not cringe. I objected, and my objection stands." As for Woodrow Wilson: "Every word I said about him on this floor, and every word that is in the Record, I said on the public rostrum in the state of South Carolina in the presence of thousands while he was living, and while his agents from the Department of Justice were stenographically reporting my remarks to the department and trying to put me in jail...
Engaged. Miss Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, daughter of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the Wilson Administration and Democratic opponent of Calvin Coolidge for the vice-presidency in 1920), graduate of Miss Chapin's School, student of agriculture at Cornell; to Curtis B. Dall, youthful manager of the syndicate department of Lehman Bros, (bankers), Manhattan. Miss Roosevelt's father is the son of the late James Roosevelt, and her mother is the only daughter of the late Elliot Roosevelt, who was only brother of the late Theodore Roosevelt. In 1905 President Roosevelt came from Washington...
ADVENTURES IN UNDERSTANDING- David Grayson-Doubleday, Page ($2.50). David Grayson is also known as Publicist Ray Stannard Baker, whilom co-editor of McClure's and the American Magazine, U. S. press chief at the Peace Conference, lauder of Woodrow Wilson and professional political commentator. As "David Grayson," he preserves a private personality whose prime characteristic is a genius for wonderment. In some way he has guarded his emotional constitution so that he enjoys life's human minutiae, which is extraordinary when you consider with what bloodless generalities a publicist has to make friends. Friend of Eugene Field, friend...