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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-one years ago this week Woodrow Wilson signed the resolution of Congress declaring that a State of War had been "thrust upon the United States'' by the German Government. For ten of the intervening years a conscientious, 47-year-old, Texas-born scholar, Dr. Charles Callan Tansill, onetime lecturer in diplomatic history at Johns Hopkins University, has been trying to find out what happened before that document was signed-what happened to U. S. finance, the munitions industry, and public opinion; to Wilson, Bryan, Lansing and the miscellaneous group of pacifists and practical politicians who made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Aaron's Difficulties | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...Representatives stood and cheered as it was announced that the "Friend of Belgium," the title conferred by the late King Albert I, was on his way (TIME, Feb. 28). In a seven-day "sentimental journey" he toured reconstructed War areas, which he had not visited since he accompanied President Wilson in 1919. After conversing with young King Leopold III, Premier Paul Emile Janson and Foreign Minister Paul Spaak, the former President left for Lille, France, two medals the richer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Looker & Listener | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...South State Street, North Clark Street, West Madison Street, Wilson Avenue district, South Side Negro districts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pastimes | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Died. Edward Mandell House, 79, confidential adviser to Woodrow Wilson; of old age; in Manhattan. "Colonel" House was author of an anonymous novel, Philip Deu: Administrator, published in 1912 about the time he made Wilson's acquaintance. It proposed many governmental reforms, which helped cement their friendship. Not reform but international diplomacy was their most binding tie. From 1914 on House commuted to Europe as Wilson's private emissary to statesmen and kings, trying first to prevent the World War, then to bring peace. In 1916 he was consulting strategist of the he-kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...Philip Dru" appeared at a significant moment in America, for at the end of 1912 House became known to the people as the friend of President-elect Wilson. The two men first met at a New Jersey dinner and soon recognized they held common interests, since the "Texas Talleyrand" had long been studying history and politics as a hobby, while Wilson had been writing and teaching them. Like the other muckrakers of that period,--Upton Sinclair, Judge Ben Lindsay, David Graham Phillips, and Lincoln Steffens--at heart Colonel House had the ideals of the reformer. After gaining Wilson's confidence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "PHILIP DRU" | 3/30/1938 | See Source »

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