Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dance for the members of the Hasty Pudding Club and their guests will be held in the club building following the Harvard-Holy Cross football game, it was announced last night by W. S. Wilson '27, who will be in charge of the affair. Dancing will begin as near 4.30 o'clock as possible and will last until 7 o'clock...
...Following his request and an official reply that it is not possible to issue a Woodrow Wilson memorial stamp this fall, President Coolidge let correspondents know that he is in favor of issuing such a stamp as soon as it is convenient, and pointed out that there is no discrimination, because many Presidents have not appeared on stamps until 20 years after their service...
Then the League of Nations seized his imagination. Under the leadership of Wilson he helped draft the Covenant. In 1919 he received the Nobel Peace prize. On Jan. 16, 1920, he presided as first Chairman of the Council of the League at its first meeting in Paris. In 1923 he resigned the Presidency of the French Senate, which he had held since 1918, in order to devote himself to the League. The recent session of the League Council found him too ill to attend. But he died in a measure triumphant, "the Spiritual Father of the League...
...Hymans of Belgium. "The Press is a great power which has a permanent seat in the League of Nations." 4) Throughout the assembly a group of U. S. women headed by Mrs. James E. Neal of N. Y. kept freshly cut flowers on the memorial tablet to President Wilson, which marks the limit of the Garden of the League...
None appreciates this more than Natural Scientist Minnie Moore-Wilson of Kissimmee, Fla., authority on Southern bird life and Seminole Indians. Last week she raised her voice in piteous protest: "There are no great national parks in the East. A 100,000-acre track in the Everglades set aside as a sanctuary for wild life would be a primeval forest appearing almost exactly as it did when Columbus set foot on the North American continent . . . The areas most suitable for the location of a bird sanctuary are worthless for agricultural purposes. To attempt to cut up the Big Cypress Swamp...