Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true, it was to issue an order to cease and desist (similar to an injunction). The Commission was to have five members appointed by the President, confirmed by the Senate, serving terms of seven years each. Not more than three members may be of the same political party. President Wilson filled the Commission and, because of the long term of office, his appointees were a majority of the Commission until a few weeks ago. Some 8,000 complaints were made to the Commissior; in eleven years. It took action ir about 1,000 of these cases. Of late, Congress...
Third, she was Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, first lady of the land. (Simultaneously she was the step-mother-in-law of William G. McAdoo...
...state-wide ballot on "Alabama's greatest living men and women"-to wit: Writer: Octavus Roy Cohen Statesman: Oscar W. Underwood Soldier: General Robert Lee Bullard Professorial Leader: Dr. George TI. Denny. Captain of Industry: George Gordon Crawford Artist: Roderick D. Mackenzie- Distinguished Citizen: Helen Keller Actress: Lois Wilson* (cinema) Athlete: Joe Sewell* (Cleveland shortstop) Gaston B. Means, famed supersleuth of the Daugherty Department of Justice, star witness of the all-star oil investigations last year, many times tried, surrendered at Washington and was sent to Atlanta Penitentiary (his first time in jail) to serve two years, following failure...
...Fleet Lord Jellicoe, General Sir John Cowans ("best Quartermaster since Moses") and ex-Premier George as "the five great men [British] of the War." The name of Lord Ypres (Sir John French) was not mentioned, but neither were those of Lords Beatty, Allenby and Northcliffe, Sir Henry Wilson and numerous other Britons. Lord Oxford may, unhappily, have been too conscious of his own lack of initiative in 1914 in meeting Sir John's persistent cry for shells, and the subsequent criticism that the latter leveled at him in his book 1914, to be entirely impartial. Whatever his faults...
Four governors were there-Moore of Idaho, Smith of New York, Winant of New Hampshire, Brandon of Alabama. U.S. Secretary of Labor Davis was there, a politician or two, notables various, such as William Jennings Bryan, Mrs. W. R. Hearst, Miss Margaret Wilson. The sessions were to last five days...