Word: woodrow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Geneva, lying meekly by the Alps, will receive Mrs. Woodrow Wilson on her second pilgrimage. She and her brother, Wilmer Boiling, sailed on the Leviathan last week. To Governor Alfred E. ("Smiling") Smith, $3,000; to his secretary, George B. Graves, $200; to St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, $9,000; to 17 other churches, $250 each. So saith the will of the late John F. Brennen, beloved Tammany politician of little note...
...many a Tennessee mountaineer, many a Chicago gangster, many a hone of political potentates. Puzzled citizens often wondered why two such potentates, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, split the Republican party in 1912 by their lack of accord, and thereby became of great assistance in the election of Woodrow Wilson to the Presidency. At least one citizen no longer wonders. Last week Dr. Charles A. Moore, acting chief of the Manuscript Department of the Library of Congress, announced the completion of the mounting and filing of the 250,000* letters written and received by William Howard Taft during...
...removing Mr. Vare (who won the $3,000,000 primary campaign) is not to elect him next November. Mr. Norris' plan of political surgery was the more happy because, oddly, the Democratic nominee happens to be a man of some note-William Bauchop Wilson, onetime Cabinet member under Woodrow Wilson, and the first Secretary of Labor...
...classmate of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, he remained one of the few close friends of the War President until the end. He was executive head of the United War Work and Red Cross campaigns, and a leader in educational and relief work in the Near East...
...comment, but Acting President of the Chamber Committee of Foreign affairs said last week: "Brazil's action means closer relations with the American republics, especially the United States. It became inevitable when it was seen that Latin America would not obtain a seat in the League Council. Woodrow Wilson's peace ideals are our ideals, but as a nation we cannot see how they can be attained by League membership...