Word: wilsons
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That was how Woodrow Wilson came to Paris to make peace...
...Words. The hopeful people had called him "Wilson the Just"-but he failed to carry his dreams of justice into reality. In the years since his fatal failure, the world had learned many words which had never been in Wilson's extensive vocabulary. It learned "Fascism," "Aryan," "Hooverville," "Stalinism," "uranium." The things the new words stood for had already killed more millions than ever cheered Wilson. Could the peacemakers of 1946 prevent these words-or their successors-from killing still more...
...Thomas Jefferson ("Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"), Abraham Lincoln ("We cannot escape history"), Epicurus, Lucretius, Democritus, Kant, Condorcet, Jeremy Bentham, Auguste Comte, Pierre Dubois, l'Abbé de Saint-Pierre, Poincaré, Ruy Barbosa and the Baron de Rio Branco (of Brazil), Ralph Waldo Emerson, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Bernard M. Baruch...
Chicago Round Table (Sun. 1:30 p.m., NBC). "What Does Russia Want?" Speakers: George N. Shuster, president of Hunter College; Frederick L. Schuman, professor of political science, Williams College, and author of Soviet Politics; Meredith Wilson, assistant professor of history, University of Chicago...
Died. Ray Stannard Baker, 76, author, essayist and journalist, friend and official biographer of Woodrow Wilson and one of the last of the "muckrakers" (others: Lincoln Steffens, Ida M. Tarbell), who flourished on the late great McClure's magazine at the turn of the century; in Amherst, Mass. Under the pen name of David Grayson, Baker wrote nine popular volumes of philosophical essays about nature and people (Adventures in Contentment, The Countryman's Year); under his own name 27 volumes about political, social and economic problems and biography. His greatest and Pulitzer Prize work: Woodrow Wilson-Life...