Word: wilsonians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commented Josephus Daniels, Wilsonian Secretary of Navy, upon a Navy order forbidding Annapolis graduates to marry until after two years' service: "Pretty high-handed. ... I am a strong advocate of matrimony...
...Hoover, 41 years White House usher (whose "consideration of others is unfailing"). Other nominees: Novelist Benjamin Kittredge; Artist Olin Dows soft-drawling Lawyer Frank Lyon Polk, Wilsonian Undersecretary of State; Lawyer George Woodward Wickersham; Justice Harlan Fiske Stone; Actor George Arliss...
...Roosevelt, then campaigning as his party's vice-presidential nominee, was so thoroughly imbued with Wilsonian idealism that he fervently repeated that U. S. entry into the League was his ''single paramount issue." Last week as Governor of New York he told a meeting of the New York State Grange in Albany...
Like Franklin Roosevelt, Newton Baker came under the spell of Wilsonian idealism. Both worked hard for their idol at the hectic Baltimore convention of 1912. Both were rewarded with membership in the Wilson political family. Mr. Baker was first offered the Department of Interior portfolio. He refused it only to accept the War Department post in 1916. His activities as head of the nation's greatest army were last year glowingly described in Newton D. Baker; America at War by Frederick Palmer...
Injured were: Josephus Daniels, 69, Wilsonian Secretary of the Navy, publisher of the Raleigh (N.. C.) News & Ob server, when the automobile in which he was riding was forced over an embankment near Atlanta and struck a tree; se vere lacerations of the scalp and a broken wrist. Chain-Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett & Wife, when their automobile skidded and overturned near Camden, S. C. Mrs. Gannett was taken to a Camden hospital, suffering a broken collar bone. Publisher Gannett proceeded to his Miami Beach home before he discovered he had three broken ribs. British States man Winston Churchill, struck...