Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...golden ante-bellum chronicle of the G. O. P. there is one entry that will always be read with bitterness; the last minute defeat of Charles Evans Hughes in 1916. To those who watched President Wilson's actions with pale hostility the satisfaction always remained of believing that with Hughes as President matters would have been otherwise. There was no little rejoicing, therefore, when he was placed in the second highest office of the land by a new Republican administration. Great things were expected...
Once more the bitter truth is driver home that the American democracy has no room for intellectual giants. Idealists, geniuses; thinkers when placed in high office, are cramped and bound by an inelastic mass opinion. They may struggle, as Wilson and Hughes struggled, to escape this bond--without success. Charles Evans Hughes will be called a great Secretary of State because he stretched these chains farther than others, but as a whole his diplomatic record is a history of the mediocrity of American democracy. And who will ask why he resigned...
...Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, having received the peace award of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation (TIME, Jan. 5, FOREIGN NEWS), went to Washington. In company with Sir Esmé Howard, British Ambassador, he called at the White House and conversed in camera with the President. Their meeting was variously described: by Lord Cecil as "a pleasant visit," by a White House spokesman as "an exchange of amenities...
...upward of a quarter of a century educators have realized that college life can be effectively organized and college traditions adequately inculcated only when the student body is split up into subordinate units. That was the basic idea of the "Quads" which Woodrow Wilson planned for Princeton. President Lowell was himself once a convert to some such idea. But throughout the land educators have continued to lavish money upon laboratory training and research, upon technical and business schools and to shed copiously sentimental tears over each new evidence of the decline in the true spirit of college life. New York...
...first thanked his host and honorers with deep sincerity. He gave them two of his memories of Woodrow Wilson-triumphant Wilson in London, 1918; sick but dauntless Wilson in Washington, 1923. Then he embarked upon a narration of the history of the League of Nations idea and a catalog, inter alia, of the chief international disputes with which the League has dealt...