Word: woodrow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Woodrow Wilson Princeton...
Speaking of Woodrow Wilson as President of Princeton, the Bishop remarked: "There was a well-founded rumor that ex-President Cleveland, respected by the whole country for his rugged integrity, had been the first trustee to break with the President, not on grounds of policy, but because his word could not be trusted. Only a few thousands knew this, however; and misunderstandings with men of strong temper (and Mr. Cleveland had one) were always possible...
...Woodrow Wilson, accompanied by the Misses Belle Baruch and Evangeline Johnson, called at the Palais des Nations, home of the League, and was received by Miss Florence Wilson, League Librarian, "a distant relative of the late President...
...some reason wholly mysterious to me, more stories of an amazing character were told and believed regarding Woodrow Wilson than any other great American of my time. There has perhaps never been in Washington a high public official more rigid in his personal rectitude than the man now dead. . . . One of the most absurd of these rumors was to the effect that he had become violently insane...
Last week, they added another historic paper to their collection. They purchased The Steubenville Herald-Star. The Herald part of it was started as a weekly in 1806, and eight years later was bought by James Wilson, grandfather of Woodrow Wilson. He ran it for 24 years, and his son Robert Wilson ran it for seven years more. In 1896, it was amalgamated with the Evening Star (founded 1889). Now the Wilson paper and the Harding paper are both the property of "two unknown young...