Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dark days. Next year he was made adviser to the National Monetary Commission. Then one day in the fall of 1908, J. P. Morgan called him into his library and announced that he was to become a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co. During the War, President Wilson called upon him to become Chairman of the Red Cross War Council, where he displayed his financial abilities by raising more than $100,000,000 in one campaign. The world of finance generally agrees that at the time of his death in June, 1922, H. P. Davison was the ablest partner...
...KENWORTHYS-Margaret Wilson -Harper ($2.00). The lives of some commonfolk are here dammed up into tragedy by the rather rickety proposition that it is dishonorable for a man to exert any extra-legal effort to recover, from his rich, reprehensible, divorced wife, the custody of their unhappy child. Author Wilson* was awarded the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for the simplicity and directness of The Able McLaughlins. Simple in diction is The Kenworthys and fairly direct in presentation. But only a patient reader will penetrate the morasses of reiterative dialog, will take the scanted, arbitrary motives on faith, will 'ignore loose...
...contracting parties and not balanced against, nor added to, a debt owing by another, which is what Britain and France have tried to do. Belgium has evidently decided to pay; although, in the words of Foreign Minister Vandervelde, leader of the Socialist Party, "this engagement [i.e. President Wilson's engagement to cancel the War debt of Belgium] is a moral engagement, which a great people cannot evade without moral damage to itself...
...Unholy Three. It was President Wilson who used to read detective stories to ease his mind. He would have liked The Unholy Three. It is a crook tale about a ventriloquist, a midget, a strong man, a sap and a girl. The very complicated plot, the murder, the trial and the solution are too intricately contrived for reworking here. They contain hate and happiness, diversion and distress. Lon Chaney plays a ventriloquist who turns into a grandmother...
...because of its bitter attacks on the late President Woodrow Wilson), and Lydia Lopokova, 33, famed Russian danseuse...