Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge, determined not to be frustrated by what President Wilson, in like circumstances, called a little group of wilful men, sent for two of his own party's unsympathetic members-Johnson of California and Connecticut's McLean. What he said to them or they to him was not divulged...
Each year Dr. Cumming, who has been in the Public Health Service for more than 30 years and its surgeon general since Woodrow Wilson appointed him so in 1920, calls the health officers of all the states to a conference. Most of them attend and from his quiet, pointed talks get stamina to suppress disease within their districts. But six or seven states are so careless of their epidemiological work that their statistics are rarely considered in Dr. Cumming's survey of the nation's health. In the two score and more who habitually report, last year there...
...President Thomas Wilson Dunn of Roslindale. Fellowes Morgan Pruyn of Albany, New York. Benjamin Holt Ticknor II of New York City. John Newlin Trainer, Jr. of New York City...
...meet the Aquitania as she docked last week, moved a ponderous prodigy of a man. Customs inspectors looked his way and touched their caps from a distance. There could be no mistaking who it was-William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards, the 300-Ib. onetime Princeton footballer who, under President Wilson, used to be Manhattan's collector of internal revenue. Obviously, Mr. Edwards had come down to meet friends and, by adumbration of his old authority, facilitate their passage through the customs shed...
...Onetime U. S. Secretary of State, under President Wilson...