Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order when there was whispering in the Chamber: "I do not expect any Senator who is not interested to stay here and listen to me, but I would like order." Listening to him in the gallery almost directly over his head was a lady in black-Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. She leaned over the gallery ledge in close attention as he declared: "President Wilson would brook no opposition. He insisted that the Senate should sign the Versailles Treaty, creating the League of Nations, on the dotted line. He went to the country confident that he would win an overwhelming victory...
...theological beliefs prove that the universities of Germany have returned to an individualistic basis. The nature of college life leads a man to think for himself. The sum total of college is apt to disagree with the voice of the mob. Although American colleges may have favored Wilson's purpose to join the League of Nations, America itself went against that policy. Thus German universities in their revival of individualistic thinking show proofs of an escape from ruling contamination's. Hereafter their educational values will be as uncontrolled, as disinterested, as farsighted as those of Oxford and Cambridge...
With Lenroot chaperoning the victors and Johnson thundering for the opposition, the World Court rode through the Senate, 76-17. Wilson is dead; Harding is dead; Lodge and LaFollette are dead. What does this tardy victory of the proponents of international cooperation mean? Is it, as Johnson solemnly warned, "the way towards the League?" Is it a sop, alike to the leadership of Coolidge and the idealism of the nation...
Married. Parker Waite Silzer, son of Governor George S. Silzer of New Jersey, to Miss Eunice Wilson Holman, of Plainfield, N. J.; at Plainfield...
Metropolitan--"Blue Beard's Seven Wives" with Blanche Sweet, Lois Wilson, and Ben Lyon...