Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of State was also promulgated (the common story is that he refused to sign the second Lusitania note to Germany). It was said that he had prepared a note to the Austrian Government (accounts of the new version differed as to the exact matter in question) which Mr. Wilson recalled and revised without consulting him, and that he thereupon resigned. Some doubt was cast upon this account...
...offices without Republican opposition. On Jan. 13 he was elected director of the National Bank of Commerce; on Feb. 17 director and general counsel of the U. S. Rubber Co.; last week trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of N. Y. to succeed the late General James H. Wilson, last surviving corps commander in the Union Army during the Civil...
...month of September to an American, a woman who wished to be at hand to observe the workings of the Sixth Assembly of the League, who came to see what fruit was borne by the seed her husband planted, who was indeed no other than Mrs. Woodrow Wilson...
...this sum that the U. S. asked Belgium to settle in its recent circular letter to its debtors (TIME, June 8, THE CABINET). Belgium was surprised to get this note because, according to an agreement with the late President Woodrow Wilson, British ex-Premier George and French ex-Premier Georges Clemenceau, she signed the Treaty of Versailles only on condition that her War debts be canceled...
Since President Wilson was in Europe, however, many anfractuosities have been discovered in the straight road which men mapped out for the World at Paris in 1919. One of them was the refusal of the U. S. to ratify the Treaty of Versailles, which meant that President Wilson's promise to Belgium was nullified. And the thought of many Belgians was expressed recently by Paul Hymans, Foreign Minister at the Versailles Conference, who asked in a session of Parliament at Brussels: "Who could have imagined in 1919 that the signature of President Wilson would today be disowned...