Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accident naturally recalled the several motor smashes that involved correspondents accompanying Presidents Wilson and Harding. On the former's League of Nations swing to the Pacific Coast, three press employes were injured, one killed. During the Harding trip to Alaska, two more were injured, one killed, victims of a skid...
...Wilson Promise. At the time of the negotiation of the Versailles Treaty the question of the Belgian War debt came up. Belgium's creditors at Versailles agreed that Germany should be made to pay what Belgium had been obliged to borrow for the War. President Wilson gave his assent to this agreement and is even said to have put his "promise" in writing. The Senate of course rejected the Versailles Treaty, and Congress passed a law specifically forbidding the arrangement. When the Dawes Plan was adopted, 5 per cent of the German reparations payments should be applied to paying...
...Debt Commissioners refused to allow a transfer of Belgian War borrowings to Germany. They declared that President Wilson's "promise" was not legally bound but that "nevertheless. . . . .there does continue a weighty moral obligation as a result of assurances given which differentiate this sum from all other debts due the U. S. from foreign countries." So it was agreed in compromise that Belgium should be bound to pay the principal of the $171,780,000 War borrowings over a period of 62 years, beginning with $1,000,000 in 1926, and scaling up to $2,900,000 beginning...
...learned. But the Texan, lean of face was lean of words on the topic. He talked a little though. He recalled the day several summers before when he had drawn the first draft of the Leauge of Nations Covenant at Magnolia under the direction of his good friend Woodrow Wilson. He said that eventually the U.S would have to become an "associate member" of the Leauge and adhere to the World court. He hoped that the League question would never more be dragged through the arena of U.S politics. He said that the Leauge would never be a real Leauge...
...confused with Margaret Woodrow Wilson, eldest daughter of the late President, who is in the advertising business...