Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quiet, jug-eared Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt surveyed the dismal prospects and the crying need. Then, in a breathtaking announcement that sounded like the start of the greatest domestic crusade since NRA, he asked the nation to build more houses in the next 22 months than it had put up in the last six years-an unbelievable total...
Applause. Energetic Wilson Wyatt, 40, had drawn his blueprint in five fast weeks. He had come to Washington virtually a stranger-a corporation lawyer whose only experience in public life had been gained as mayor of his home town, Louisville, Ky. But by virtue of driving himself all day and half the night he had managed to discuss and argue his theories with scores of Administration officials, men in labor and industry...
...expediency was not enough to cover the loss to the U.S. moral position from secret diplomacy. The U.S. had come so far from Wilson's "open covenants openly arrived at" that no one knew whether Byrnes himself knew that the latest Yalta disclosure would be the last...
...Stafford Cripps, rigidly respectable president of Britain's Board of Trade, who looks like a cross between Woodrow Wilson and an old maid, plumped for more public aid to private romance. "Love in a cottage is all very well," he observed, "if the roof doesn't leak." Mere muddling-through in marriage, said he, is the result of unlettered prudery. "We have been half-ashamed of our divinely created animal instincts...
...book just out, (Washington Tapestry, "Whittlesey House; $2.75), that drew on the diary and on her own wifely recollections, grey-haired, soft-spoken Olive Clapper set down some of the experiences and judgments the Clappers shared in the quarter century that began with Wilson, ended with Roosevelt and overlapped two wars...