Word: woodrow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Barton Payne, Secretary of the Interior under Woodrow Wilson, and immediate predecessor of Albert B. Fall, would be, it was intimated, the choice of George E. Brennan, Democratic boss of Illinois...
Only two criticism can be offered to Mr. Campbell's suggestions; the importance of choosing a name like Woodrow, Gamaliel, or Calvin has been quite overlooked; and the recommendation of a college education for the prospective President provided "that he be not matriculated in one of the larger and more fashionable universities, such as Yale or Harvard" seems unwise. Certainly this sweeping denial to Harvard students of the possibility of ascending the Presidential chair is not to he accepted as gospel. with a proper attention to details a Harvard education can be made compatible with ultimate political success; at least...
...Baruch will be assisted in paying for the Institute by the General Education Board, which has voted partial support until 1928. "Barney" Baruch* became a name known many miles from Wall Street when on March 5, 1918, Woodrow Wilson made him head of the War Industries Board. The Board exercised supervision over virtually the entire industrial fabric of the nation, with power to commandeer plants, purchase for the Allies, allocate materials, place contracts. Mr. Baruch's was the "broadest authority and most autocratic control ever vested in any individual...
Mahatma Gandhi, Indian-Non-Co-operatist: "One Bishop Charles H. Brent, chancellor of Hobart College, N. Y., selected for his students the 'four greatest men of the 20th Cen-tury.' He named: Woodrow Wilson, Cardinal Mercier, Nikolai Lenin and myself...
Marion L. Burton, President of the University of Michigan: "Dissatisfied with the selections of Bishop Brent, I named four Americans as the greatest 20th centurians: Roosevelt, Ford, Edison, Orville Wright. I gave honorable mention to Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George...