Word: wilsons
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Richard B. Burtis, of 1675 Englewood St., St. Paul, Minnesota, a graduate of Wilson High School...
Today the most promising national organization strictly for collegiates concerned with influencing political issues is Students for Democratic Action, junior arm of Wilson Wyatt's Americans for Democratic Action. Even in its present state of acute growing pains it may represent with its alleged 5,000 membership in 75 chapters the advent of a new force which can effectively correlate the scattered social consciences of the political animals. Past patterns demand revision; for the so-called "student movement" of the last decade sported labyrinthine politics at once harlequinade and sorry spectacle. From 1935 to 1939 the American Student Union held...
...inclination. Furthermore SDA, like ADA, clearly stated at the outset that unlike other organizations' which had fallen into negativist internal battling against men primarily loyal to the Communist Party Line, it would embark upon its adventure explicitly inviting Little Redwing out and defining its direction in terms of Roosevelt, Wilson, Jackson, and Jefferson. The competition rests with Young Progressive Citizens of America (YPCA) claiming 25 chapters and American Youth for Democracy (AYD) claiming a membership of 5,000 distributed in high schools, colleges, and what have euphemistically been termed young people's circles. At Harvard the Liberal Union minutes show...
After graduating from Radcliffe, Mrs. Dean went to study at Yale's Graduate School, from which she received an A.M. in 1926, and a Ph.D. here two years later. She has also been awarded honorary LL.D.'s from Wilson College and the University of Rochester...
...There have been three Presidents of the United States: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Pardon me, I am wrong; it has lately transpired there was another President called Something Wilson, who was devoted to his family, and liked to stand by the piano, listening to old songs. He was shockingly misunderstood...