Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wearing a crimson necktie and a blue band on his straw hat, the President, accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, Sons James & John and a party of friends, motored to Annapolis to watch the Adams Cup regatta from the bow of the launch of Rear Admiral Wilson Brown-his former naval aide, now superintendent of the Naval Academy. As a graduate of Harvard and the Navy Department, the President could be two-thirds sure of being on the winning side in every race. Sizzling comfortably in the hot sunshine, the party saw Harvard's freshman and varsity, Navy's junior...
...John L. Lewis formed an alliance to unseat the regular Democratic organization. Not only did Guffey-Lewis back Miner Kennedy against the organization's gubernatorial candidate, a mild, mustached Pittsburgh lawyer named Charles Alvin Jones. They also supported Philadelphia's mud-slinging ex-Republican Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson against Governor George Earle for the Senatorial nomination. To add to the confusion, Governor Earle's ousted State's Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti ran for Governor...
...made an election eve proposal that each faction sacrifice one candidate, compromise on an Earle-Kennedy combination. This proposal Governor Earle promptly repudiated. Next day Pennsylvania's other Democrats repudiated it too, nominated Candidate Jones 6-to-5 over Candidate Kennedy. Candidate Earle 2-to-1 over Candidate Wilson...
George F. Wilson -- Miss Nancy Bertlelson, Brookline
...John G. Wilson -- Miss Barbara B. Gorham, Bennington...