Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Lloyd Wilson came back at the Bureau. Not to save $6.18 (filing an appeal cost him $10) but to establish a point that "could mean a big saving for a lot of people," he argued that the law recognizes unborn children as living human beings in many other instances. It permits a child to inherit from a father who dies before the child is born. It calls abortion murder. Mrs. Wilson also added an argument: "The doctor's bill started long be fore the child was born. . . . The cost of supporting a child doesn't wait...
...Geneva the wife of Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, Wartime German Ambassador to the U. S., revealed that he was so broken up by the death last march of Colonel E. M. House, one-time confidential adviser to Woodrow Wilson, that he has been ill ever since...
Philadelphia's rusty Mayor S. (for Sam) Davis Wilson loves to see his name in print -except on the soon-quashed indictment whose 49 counts last September charged him with misdoings in office. He has even had his name blazoned on the city's trash baskets. In 1936 he began spending $7.000,000 of city and WPA money for an airport at Hog Island in the Delaware River marshes southwest of town-a field to be named S. Davis Wilson Airport...
Last week Mayor Wilson's nearly completed 1,000-acre memorial to himself ran into an obstacle. Some 3,000 feet dead east of the 5,000-foot east-west "instrument-landing" runway lies historic Fort Mifflin, which held out, but not long enough, against the British when they besieged Philadelphia in 1777. Fort Mifflin nowadays is a powder keg. Behind its ancient ramparts the U. S. Navy keeps some 450,000 lbs. of high explosives, convenient to the nearby Philadelphia Navy Yard. No Philadelphian likes to think about what might happen if an airplane landed smack...
Ever since last March Mayor Wilson has tried to get the explosives out of Fort Mifflin. So touchy a spot, he has argued, is as much a menace to Philadelphia as to the airport. But the Navy Department stubbornly insisted that there and nowhere else will it keep its Delaware Bay powder. Last week the Civil Aeronautics Authority announced it would withhold approval of the field until the direction of the dangerous runway was changed. WPA withdrew the 800 workers working at the field...