Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardly started when the Allies had to appeal to the House of Morgan for help in financing their huge purchases in the U. S. First, J. P. Morgan & Co. advanced credits of a few millions. Then, when the Wilson administration gave its consent, Allied loans were floated publicly to a total of about $2,500,000,000-mostly through Morgan auspices...
...replace Paul Vories McNutt as High Commissioner to the Philippines, President Roosevelt last week made a nonpolitical, career appointment. He named Woodrow Wilson's scholarly, rufous son-in-law, Assistant Secretary of State Francis Bowes Sayre, 54. Criminal law was Professor Sayre's course at Harvard Law School. Counseling King Rama VI of Siam on foreign relations (1923-25) gave him grounding in Oriental affairs, King Rama called him "Phya Kalyam Maitri" (The Beautiful in Friendship). Lately he has worked with Secretary Hull on reciprocal trade treaties, with Senator Tydings on the act to cushion the Philippines...
...Manhattan, the son of an army surgeon and descendant of a long line of atheists. A boy prodigy in mathematics and history, he quit school at 15 to become secretary to a retired millionaire who fancied radicals. An anarchist sympathizer, at 18 he made campaign speeches for Woodrow Wilson. He made and lost a War fortune in commodities purchased on borrowed money, turned conscientious objector when the U. S. entered the War. Since 1919 he has worked in Wall Street, managed private banks in London and Paris, been in the grain trade in Antwerp, written for financial magazines, ghost-written...
...Martians were planning to send the Earth a signal, this week would be the time. If they send a light signal, the beacon will have to be of at least one and one-half trillion candlepower to be visible in Mt. Wilson's 100-inch telescope. No plans were afoot on Earth to communicate with Mars...
Last week he came upon something beyond clucking or smiling over-a disturbingly prophetic cartoon. Published in 1919, it showed Wilson, Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Orlando leaving the Peace Conference, the treaty on the floor, a child labeled "1940 Class" standing with head bowed behind a pillar. Caption: THE TIGER: "Curious! I seem to hear a child weeping...