Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scalp of his hand-picked successor, William Howard Taft. Declaring that he "felt like a bull moose," Roosevelt shrilly attacked "moneyed privilege" and "special interests," polled 4,126,020 popular and 88 electoral votes to Taft's 3,483,922 popular and eight electoral. But Democrat Woodrow Wilson, with a popular vote of 6,286,214-less than Taft and Roosevelt combined-walked away with 435 electoral votes...
...Ford II and International Harvester's Fowler McCormick both tried to help by reducing their prices. Both were forced to put their prices up again. It was not till year's end that another potent hand was laid on the chain. General Electric's Charles Edward Wilson announced that G.E. was cutting prices from 3 to 10% on about half its consumer products, an estimated saving of $50,000,000 a year for consumers. Said Wilson: "It's time industry and labor faced up to this danger. This building up of prices continually cannot take...
...world's ten best-dressed women (picked by a poll run by the New York Dress Institute) had the same Old Look. The Duchess of Windsor topped it (for the third time). Mrs. Harrison Williams, as usual, was among those present, and so were Mrs. John C. Wilson and Mrs. William Paley (who used to be present as Mrs. Stanley Mortimer Jr.). Mrs. Howard Hawks, who was in No. 1 position last year, was in No. 8 this time. Actress Ina Claire, on the list for the first time, was already weary of it all. "I decline absolutely...
What Industrialist Wilson wanted to hear was a guarantee from unions that they would not ask for a third round of wage increases next year. If such a guarantee was given, he said, then industry could afford to roll back prices next year...
Would labor stick by such words if industry did what it could to roll back prices? No one could know for sure until the step was taken. Nor was there any certainty that industry alone-without the help of the farmers-could roll back prices much. But now that Wilson had told of his plan, it looked as if it was up to U.S. industry to tell what it would...