Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since the U. S. Embassy in Berlin was damaged by fire in 1931, each new U. S. Ambassador to Germany has had to find himself a residence. Last week in Paris Katherine Bogle Wilson, wife of Ambassador Hugh Robert Wilson, complained that during the last five weeks she had tramped through 102 Berlin houses, could not find one suitable for the Embassy. Reason: to make room for Government buildings, Nazi city planners have razed residential structures, thereby creating an acute housing shortage in the swank Tiergarten district, where the diplomatic colony likes to live...
...Woodrow Wilson called him the First Citizen of Texas." New York's Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise said he was "the greatest rabbi we've got." Jacob Schiff gave him $500,000 to set up a Jewish Immigrants' Information Bureau in Galveston, Tex., to attract more Jews to the Southwest. Author O. Henry, onetime convict, kindled his interest in parole work, in which he became a U. S. leader. With a shotgun over his shoulder and a bottle of whiskey in his pocket, he led citizens in keeping order after the Galveston hurricane of 1900. At a public...
...Earle, running for the Senate, is opposed by the C.I.O.--supported S. Davis Wilson, Mayor of Philadelphia, who has changed his political affiliation so often that he is compared to the chameleon, with that versatile animal coming out distinctly second-best...
...GUARDS*--Wilson '39, Glueck '39, Mellen '39, Lowry '41, Brown '41, Lacey '41, Snyder '39, Cordingley '40, C. Curtis...
More important than the Governor's personal fortune was the certainty that the growing gaps between the principals in the once invincible Guffey-Earle-McCloskey-John L. Lewis combination would be filled with scandalous dirt seldom matched in scandalous Pennsylvania politics. No sooner had Mayor Wilson opened the mudgates than Boss Guffey asked the Senate to find out whether Governor Earle had designated Little Matt as a State Representative in apportioning PWA funds. PWA Administrator Harold Ickes tacitly confirmed that Contractor McCloskey had counseled both the State and the PWA on the mechanics of allotting more than twenty million...