Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...election of 1912 he won his first victory at the polls?and then he was not a candidate. Bitter, bitter had been the Democratic Convention when Bryan, bit in teeth, prevented the nomination of Champ Clark, secured the nomination for Woodrow Wilson...
...that he was made Secretary of State and served over two years, resigning because he did not approve the President's increasing sternness with Germany following the sinking of the Lusitania. From then on his political career dwindled, although he spoke for Wilson in 1916, and was still enough of a factor in 1924 to make it seem worth while to nominate his brother for Vice President. But again the name of Bryan lost...
Eminent educators present: President Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College; Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart (Frankfort, Ky.), foe of illiteracy; C. T. Wing, President of the National Union Of Teachers of England and Wales; Dr. P. Kuo, onetime President of South Eastern University (Nanking, China) ; Mrs. Laura Puffer Morgan of Washington, D. C., who arose and announced a World Hero Prize Competition (12 prizes, $100) open to the schoolchild essayists of the world. Any school might submit essays on twelve heroes. The competition would end on "World Goodwill...
...time of the trial of Murderers Leopold and Loeb in Chicago a year ago, Dr. Brill attracted attention by declaring that George Washington and Woodrow Wilson as well as the murderers were "schizoids," i. e., independent persons, progressing on aims tangential to the tendencies of the day. Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt he classed as "syntonics," i. e., persons following a line which, however set, synchronizes with their surroundings...
...some reason wholly mysterious to me, more stories of an amazing character were told and believed regarding Woodrow Wilson than any other great American of my time. There has perhaps never been in Washington a high public official more rigid in his personal rectitude than the man now dead. . . . One of the most absurd of these rumors was to the effect that he had become violently insane...