Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Professor, a man of 68, possessed of an A. B. from Yale in 1879 and a Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins seven years later, a classmate of Wood- row Wilson, first a History teacher, then President of Adelphi College, Brooklyn, then pacifist, then supporter of Woodrow Wilson and in his advancing age a leading member of such organizations as the World Court League, the League of Nations Union, the New York Peace Society, was lifted momentarily from his comparative obscurity into the national limelight. Endowed with a small fortune, sought out by greedy stock-salesmen, he lived in momentary fame...
This in a Manhattan hotel function room. When all the lights were snapped on, a distinguished company, some 1,200 strong, stood each behind his plate while grace was said. A moment later the company sat-ambassadors, whilom-ambassadors, bankers, editors, divines, a general or two ; Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Miss Margaret Wilson, Authoress Ida M. Tarbell, Mrs. Charles L. Tiffany, Mr. and Mrs. Norman H. Davis and many another...
...memorial dinner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation; the date was the late President's 68th birthday anniversary; there were only two speeches after dinner. At coffee-time, Norman H. Davis, Chairman of the Foundation, arose to the introduction and ceremony of the evening, beginning with a tribute to President Wilson and working from that into citation of the merits of Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (Lord Robert Cecil), the Foundation's unanimous choice (TIME, Dec. 15") for recipient of the Woodrow Wilson...
Rear Admiral Nulton, a man of 55, a good disciplinarian, with a record of service in many branches of the Navy, is to step into Wilson's place. The new Superintendent was born in Winchester, Va., Was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1889. At three periods since then he has been assigned to duty at the Academy, The last time, 1915-18, when Admiral Eberle (then Captain) was Superintendent, he served as Commandant of Midshipmen...
...That the "beautiful islands" and other scenic features have been largely destroyed by the flooding of the bottom land following the building of Wilson Dam, and that the mussels are rapidly dying...