Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary's experience aroused no bitterness. In his writings on the peace negotiations he analyzed President Wilson with the lucidity, penetration, impartiality of a psychologist. He testified to an understanding, a sense of human tragedy which transcended the personal equation. Last week he died of heart disease in Washington...
...Year-Old. Every alert U. S. citizen remembers that President Woodrow Thomas Wilson was the Godfather of Czechoslovakia. Without his decisive intervention the new state might have been snuffed out as soon as born. But of course every Czech and Slovak knows that the Father of Czechoslovakia is Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, first and still President of the Republic...
...Thomas Garrigue Masaryk was not idly boasting, last week, when he said to a U. S. correspondent on the tenth birthday of Czechoslovakia: "I wish it were possible for me to take a quiet evening stroll past our new statue of President Wilson [in Prague]. They tell me it looks splendid under the floodlights at night. But alas I am always recognized and overwhelmed with public adulation...
Full Measure. Reasons omitted, the Hoover victory loomed as one to which Republicans would be able to point with effective pride for several political generations. Against the most formidable Democrat since Wilson, Hoover had won the most overwhelming majority since Grant smothered Tammany's Seymour (1868). It was the greatest electoral majority ever-444 to 87. The Harding landslide of 1920 was considered remarkable when it chipped Tennessee and Oklahoma off the Solid South. The Hoover avalanche included both these States and also swept away the Democracy's corner anchors, old Virginia and North Carolina, fruitful Florida, vast...
Died. Robert Lansing, 64, Secretary of State under President Wilson: of heart disease; in Washington...