Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past CRIMSON straw ballot figures mean anything, Harvard politics are largely in the hands of the Republicans. In the CRIMSON poll of 1912, however, when 1608 votes were cast, Wilson obtained 735, Roosevelt 475, Taft 365, Debs 25 and Chafin 8. No candidate secured a majority vote...
Hughes Defeats Wilson...
...poll, Hughes decisively defeated Wilson by a plurality of 513 votes in the straw ballot. Out of a total of 1802 votes cast; Hughes received 1140, or 62 per cent; Wilson, 627; Allan L. Benson, 24; J. Frank Hanley, 10; Underwood, 1. The large number of votes indicates the interest taken in the poll, and the Republican plurality shows the Harvard opposition to the rest of the country in one of the most closely contested elections the country has ever witnessed. For two days the states were in a frenzy of excitement, Hughes being first announced as the winner...
...democracy, which, despite his flair for mixing with chambers of commerce and booming the shipping facilities of Hampton Roads, he has helped to revive in Virginia politics. This spirit was visible at the Governor's Ball, not only in the presence of all the F. F. V.'s, Woodrow Wilson's widow and President Alderman of the University of Virginia, but also in the presence of all Virginia's onetime Governors who are yet alive. The affair, most brilliant of Virginia's social year, was given under the auspices of the Virginia League of Women Voters. In what State besides...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Rea¬ son: (see "Testimonial"). Benjamin F. Yoakum, Manhattan finan¬ cier, oldtime Democrat, student of the f a r m p r o b l e m . President Harry Augustus Garfield of Williams College, since Wilson days a Democrat. Reasons: Prohibition, farm re¬ l i e f , f o r e i g n r e l a t i o n s . 1,000 Methodist ministers of Ohio. Reason: "In the name of Ohio Methodism I desire to report that the services of Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt in Ohio have produced a profound impression...