Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Circuit Court Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson, of Houston, to an Anglo-American committee which will investigate the Arab-Jewish deadlock in Palestine. ¶ Paid a pre-Christmas visit to wounded veterans in the Bethesda Naval Hospital and the Army's Walter Reed Hospital. ¶ Put balding, affable Wilson Wyatt, ex-Mayor of Louisville, into the hot spot of U.S. housing expediter...
...last week it finally took a deep breath, granted Harry Truman powers that it had regularly denied Wilson, Taft, Harding, Coolidge, Roosevelts I & II. Congress, of course, did not go all the way; it exempted some special preserves.* But Harry Truman now has authority to streamline and coordinate almost all other branches of the executive department...
...administer the new policy, to try to get a half million new dwellings built by the end of 1946, the President picked Louisville's lanky, jug-eared ex-Mayor Wilson Wyatt as federal housing boss. It was immediately apparent that Wilson Wyatt was going to have trouble. Real-estate boards and construction men all over the country forthwith set up an outraged howl over the President's request for ceilings...
...Tolstoy and His Wife, Tikhon Polner; A. Woollcott, His Life and His World, Samuel Hopkins Adams; The Middle Span: Vol. II, Persons and Places, George Santayana; Mozart-His Charactcr. His Work, Alfred Einstein; Black Boy, Richard Wright; The Young Jefferson, Claude G. Bowers; The Unquiet Grave, Cyril Connolly; Woodrow Wilson and the Great Betrayal, Thomas A. Bailey; The Age of Jackson, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.; Saints and Strangers, George F. Willison; One Who Survived, Alexander Barmine; Lincoln, the President, J. G. Randall...
...David B. Wilson...