Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British Sportswriter Peter Wilson took a mournful look at Britain's recent sports record. Russia had beaten the British at soccer, France had eliminated their Davis Cuppers, the U.S. had just flattened Britain's best boxers and her No. 1 golfer. Wrote Wilson last week in London's Sunday Pictorial: "Losers, losers, all the time...
...MARY T. WILSON...
Once during debate on the bill his backers cried: "Blast him, Carter! Dynamite him!" "Why," he asked softly, "use dynamite when insect powder will do?" One corner of his mouth curled up when he talked. Said Woodrow Wilson: "Carter snarled the Federal Reserve Act through Congress out of one side of his mouth. Think what he would have done with both sides." In 1918, Wilson made him Secretary of the Treasury. Finally, in 1920, at the age of 62, he went to the Senate...
Norman A. Wilson...
...Paris, too, Secretary Daniels saw the beginnings of the "sabotaging [of] world peace" by Wilson's opponents. Intensely loyal to his old chief ("the easiest man to comprehend . . . utterly frank and genuine"), he bowls over Wilson's opponents and disaffected friends one by one, from Henry Cabot Lodge and George Harvey to Secretary of State Lansing and the mysterious Colonel House. Said Wilson once: "I have reached the conclusion that [Ambassador] Walter [Hines] Page is the damndest fool we ever appointed. Don't you agree?" His Navy Secretary shook his head...