Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Speaker or President pro tem might not be able to qualify (if born outside the U.S., or if younger than 35). More importantly, a Speaker might well be a political opponent of the Administration he would take over. Recent examples: Republican Speaker Frederick H. Gillett in the Wilson Administration (1919); Democratic Speaker John Nance Garner in the Hoover Administration...
There was no simple touchstone, no all-embracing word to sum up the world organization that emerged this week from San Francisco. Augustus had sought the security of his world through Roman "justice"; Gregory through Christian "brotherhood"; Napoleon through "law" and the Grand Army; Metternich through "legitimacy"; Wilson through "democracy." The San Francisco conference had no comparable key; it just said "security." By stressing the goal rather than the path, it opened the door to all opportunities-and to all contradictions...
Perhaps that was the only way. In spite of radio, cables, telephones and the airplane, the world of 1945 was a far more various world than that of Augustus or even of Wilson. The oilcans, the machine guns, the bomb-wrecked homes looked alike. But the aspirations of men, from land to land, were vastly different. All wanted security ("Give peace in our time, O Lord"). But on what other fundamental did they agree? Area of Agreement. Yet for nine weeks, and in surprising amity, the delegates at San Francisco labored together. One thing they had in common-nationhood...
...Cotzias, Thomas Richard Drew, Jr., Joseph Austin Erickson, Jr., Robert Louis Feinberg, John Gilman Foster, Robert John Gabler, John Richard Gilman, Jr., Leon Arnold Green, John Joseph Hall, Lee Montgomery Hutchins, 2nd, John Dunster Kettelle, Jr., Robert William Macnamara, Herbert Anthony Mehlhorn, Adams Hoffman Nickerson, Leon Reznick, Norman Alan Wilson...
...another, the contemporary life and tastes and preferences of the American people." Last week the Library announced that its first selections for the archives included 45 features, 48 short subjects, 104 newsreels. Among the feature winners: National Velvet, Going My Way, Meet Me in St. Louis, Wilson, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, None But the Lonely Heart, Two Girls and a Sailor...