Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park, Rev. Frank R. Wilson had his telephone disconnected to keep people from pestering him for seats at the service he will perform Sunday in St. James Episcopal ("the President's") Church, with presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker of the U. S. Protestant Episcopal Church preaching the sermon. Rector Wilson declared that faithful past church attendance would now yield a dividend: regular worshippers would get seats, others would have to stand in the grounds outside. He also put churchmanlike perspective on all the hullabaloo. Said he: "We realize it is a great honor that our church will...
...time he was advising Colonel Robin, who was also President Wilson's unofficial representative to the Kremlin. Alex Gumberg was advising Lenin on policy toward the U. S. In the revolutionary confusion he also found himself acting as press censor, an unofficial job which evolved from the fact that he was hanging around the Kremlin and could speak English...
Engaged. Jane Howard, daughter of Scripps-Howard's Roy Wilson Howard; and Lieut. Albert Carson Perkins, U.S.N.; in Manhattan...
Rough water from the wake of several pleasure boats made rowing difficult at first, and Jack Wilson found it hard to settle the stroke down to the usual 32, but once he was able to the crew responded beautifully and spaced out well...
...Philadelphia last week, famed Edwin Powell Hubble of California's Mt. Wilson Observatory-accepting the Franklin Institute's coveted medal for "extensive study of the nebulae, particularly those outside our galaxy, as a result of which: the dimensions of observed space have been greatly increased"-announced discovery of a fifth motion in which the man sitting before his fire unwittingly shares. This is a motion of the whole Milky Way relative to other star galaxies glimmering in the abysses of space...