Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just seven years ago, Bainbridge Colby, personal friend of President Wilson, invited two steel men to lunch at Washington. Mr. Colby, later Secretary of State, was then a member of the U. S. Shipping Board. At lunch he begged one guest, Charles M. Schwab, to become Director General of the U. S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. The other guest, Eugene G. Grace, admonished Mr. Schwab, his business associate, to refuse...
...epitaphery published in the press of the U. S. last week would have taken him longer to read. Merely a list of his sitters is a comprehensive British and U. S. Hall of Fame of the last half century. Statesmen like Woodrow Wilson, John Hay; men of affairs like Lord Ribblesdale, Theodore Roosevelt; actors, actresses like Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson, Ada Rehan, Ellen Terry; authors, educators, beauties, generals, industrialists. Though he announced in 1903 that he would paint no more portraits, he occasionally broke his rule, twice to make it possible for future generations to scrutinize the incomparable countenance...
...President and Mrs. Coolidge occupied a flag-draped box at B. F. Keith's vaudeville theatre where President Wilson often went. Senator Butler was their guest. Mrs. Coolidge applauded every...
...Particulars. One Frank S. Myers was appointed postmaster at Portland, Ore., by President Wilson in 1917, was removed by the President in January, 1920. Mr. Myers sued for salary for the balance of his four-year term...
...diagnosed: "For 30 years Lodge was called 'the scholar in politics,' and doubtless got a good deal of quiet pleasure when he read that phrase in the newspapers or heard the toastmaster roll it out at banquets. Then came Wilson out of Princeton University to the Presidency, and people began to call him 'the scholar in politics.' Thus was a rivalry staged...