Word: woodrow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Calm was eventually restored and a memorial speech for the late U. S. President, Woodrow Wilson, was listened to with great respect...
...Passed bill granting mail franking privilege to Edith Bolling Wilson, widow of Woodrow Wilson (previously passed by the Senate...
...speech before the Writers' Club of Columbia University, I stated that the four greatest writers of fiction in America today are Willa Cather, Edna Ferber [see Page 14], Zona Gale, Dorothy Canfield. I also stated that I am 'trying to write a kindly biography of Woodrow Wilson, whose aims I have always believed in, though I sometimes despised his methods...
Joseph P. Tumulty, Secretary to the late Woodrow Wilson: "I made a speech at a Woodrow Wilson memorial service in Brooklyn. Said I: 'They called him cold when he was only shy. They called him austere when he was only gentle. Those who execrated Woodrow Wilson, who cried "Crucify, Crucify," those who knocked, knocked at the door of his sick room, spying upon a weary President, pursuing him like a deer set upon by snarling hounds, are now in the shadow of disgrace.' Applause cut me short. Then I went on: 'Are resting under the blight and stigma...
Ralph Adams Cram, famed architect: "I proposed the erection of a suitable memorial on the Princeton campus to the onetime President of Princeton, Woodrow Wilson, 79. Also, memorials to James Madison, Class of 1771, and John Witherspoon, President of Princeton...