Word: wilsonians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Democratic Chairman Farley appointed Joseph E. Davies, Wilsonian chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, to be vice-chairman and executive committee chairman of the Democratic National Campaign Committee. Washington wiseacres who believe that rich and regal Mrs. Marjorie Post Hutton Davies would dearly love to become an Ambassador's lady conceded that her husband could not have picked a likelier apprenticeship...
...general German papers took time out to blame upon the "peace prating" of Woodrow Wilson the imposition upon Germany of the Treaty of Versailles. Then in various ways German editors announced that "President Roosevelt has now gone Wilsonian...
...course, in the room alone, each, I am sure, giving the other his full confidence.'' Says Millis: "It was a dangerous illusion for a diplomatist at a moment like that one." Page soft-pedalled Wilson's sharpest notes to the British Government, drew frequent Wilsonian rebukes: "Beg that you will not regard the position of this Government as merely academic. Contact with opinion on this side the water would materially alter your view. . . ." But long before the U. S. joined the Allies, Page had become, in Wilson's eyes, "just another Englishman...
...present fight which has broken out between the Harvard student body and the University authorities of the oldest college in America (1636) makes evident for the first time the cleft between the post-war student youth and the old-fashioned Wilsonian group of professors. An incident such as this might well be the first move in an intellectual fermentation within the academic upper classes of conservative New England...
...flown from California to take his seat in the Senate this week. But present was Widow Edith Boiling Gait Wilson (second wife) who chatted and shook hands with another great Wartime leader, pale old General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing. Also there was Francis Bowes Sayre, the other Wilsonian son-in-law whom President Roosevelt had made Assistant Secretary of State. His two children, Francis Bowes Sayre Jr. and Eleanor Axson Sayre, laid a wreath on the Wilson tomb in the crypt of the Washington Cathedral...