Word: woodrow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This season finds America represented abroad by two leading lights of the Cabinet-Secretary Hughes and Secretary Mellon. Not since 1919, when Woodrow Wilson was negotiating in Paris, have two such pertinent figures of American officialdom been presented on the European stage. Other members of the Cabinet have been abroad since 1919, but now appear there-to use the European terms-the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Finance. And this happens at a time when diplomatic and economic questions are sputtering very lustily in the European pot. Who can say what important developments...
...this point that Ellen Graham Bassell appeared on the scene, to become the second Mrs. Davis. Said Town Topics: "In entertaining small talk she is the equal of John William himself, certainly of Robert Lansing, and is entirely comparable to the second Mrs. Woodrow Wilson." Besides, she had the reputation of patronizing the best dressmakers in Washington. What is more, Mrs. Davis hits it off quite as well with Mrs. Lansing as her husband did with Mrs. Lansing's husband. The Lansings introduced the Davis's to Washington's inner circle. Then Mr. Lansing spoke well...
...Woodrow Wilson sent John William Davis to Berne, to negotiate with the Germans on the treatment and exchange of prisoners. Shortly afterwards Walter Mines Page died. Woodrow Wilson selected John William to succeed to the Embassy of the Court of St. James...
Upon the wall supporting the terrace below the Secretariat of the League of Nations is a tablet: "To the Memory of Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, Founder of the League of Nations. The Town of Geneva...
Wilson. Profound homage to the memory of Woodrow Wilson, whose spirit and influence will live through the ages...