Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Official Backer. In Warrenton, Ore., Mayor F. M. Wilson stepped on the gas, shot backwards into a store, stopped in front of a clerk's desk, turned inquiringly to his fellow passenger, who politely refused His Honor a driver's license...
...White House the word "gang" does not necessarily have a sinister connotation. Most U.S. Presidents have had their gangs, some big, some little, some called one thing, some called another. Jackson had the "Kitchen Cabinet"; its chief cooks were two Kentucky editors, Amos Kendall and Francis Preston Blair. Wilson had Colonel House. Teddy Roosevelt had his "Tennis Cabinet," the "high-minded and efficient set" of young men which included Gifford Pinchot and James G. Garfield. Harding had Harry Daugherty and Albert Fall, who belonged to his official Cabinet and doubled as part of the gang out of meetings. Franklin Roosevelt...
...President Wilson, with all his mistakes, will be remembered in history as a here of both common sense and good will. Today there are no heroes, either of common sense or of good will...
Salvemini, author of scores of treatises on various phases of Italian history, compared the current peace conference with these after World War I. "Wilson's 14 Joints cemented discussion and solution of problems," he said. "Almost all territorial problems were solved in the best possible way. Economic problems were almost all badly solved, but, little by little during the years that followed, they were approached with a sufficient amount of common sense. Until the depression of 1929 set in, they were on the way to satisfactory settlement...
...notable case, Alvarez suspects, was that of Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference. One day he felt unwell, was thought to have a cold. Suddenly he changed from a considerate man to a fussy one, impatient, suspicious, convinced he was being spied...