Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bigger ones: Bequests of $7,000,000 from Roger Deering's estate in 1936, $8,000,000 from Milton H. Wilson...
Philadelphia's sick Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson was interested in these events. Not only is Bill Leader his stanch political friend, but against the Mayor, his strapped city government, etc., etc. Apex has filed a separate suit for $1,026,793. Charge: they failed to provide adequate police protection...
...After the stroke that paralyzed Woodrow Wilson's left side, ended his nationwide speaking tour for the League, left him an invalid for the rest of his life, he was visited by a Senate subcommittee, ostensibly to discuss a Mexican treaty, actually to decide on his fitness to continue in office. Leader was New Mexico's Albert B. ("Teapot Dome") Fall, who entered the room "looking like a regular Uriah Heap, 'washing his hands with invisible soap in imperceptible water.' " Said Senator Fall: "Well, Mr. President, we have all been praying for you." Said the President...
...Some years ago Einstein visited California's Mt. Wilson Observatory, which houses under a vast rotatable dome the largest (100-inch) operating telescope in the world. Einstein was standing on a horizontal flange attached to the dome, when an astronomer flipped a switch and the dome began to turn, Einstein with it. The physicist did not realize that he was moving. Like most visitors subjected to the same experience, it seemed to him that he was stationary, that the whole central well of the observatory (solidly anchored through concrete pillars to bedrock) was turning in the opposite direction...
Over 80 are participating in the Committee's work which for the Spring term will consist completely in the making and remaking of records of their productions, Officers are Barry Brown '41, Chairman, and D. Wilson Webb '40. Executive Committeeman at Large...