Word: woodrow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William G. McAdoo. Arriving from Manhattan, Mr. and Mrs. McAdoo with their two daughters, Eleanor Wilson and Mary Faith, were met at the Union Station, Washington, by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. The McAdoo's had an invitation to stay at the Wilson home, but declined it for fear the children might be disturbing to the ex-President, who is far from well. After stopping at a hotel, however, a visit to S Street was at once undertaken so that the two little girls could " see Granddaddy " who was equally anxious to see them...
...Capital, watchers assumed that Mr. Roper had decided it was time for the McAdoo boom to come out in the open. Mr. McAdoo had himself intimated that he might soon deliver a comprehensive statement on national issues. But the situation was complicated by Mr. McAdoo's father-in-law, Woodrow Wilson. It is generally understood that if Mr. Wilson had merely to choose who would be the next President, he would select David F. Houston, who was Secretary of Agriculture and later Secretary of the Treasury in the Wilson Cabinet. At any rate, Mr. Wilson is understood to have...
Emerging from the Progressive struggle, he plunged again into battle against Woodrow Wilson, the League of Nations, the Versailles Treaty. There again he was aligned with Hiram Johnson as well as with other irreconcilables, notably Senator William E. Borah, Progressive of Idaho, Senator Frank B. Brandegee, stern and rockbound Conservative from Connecticut, and the late Senator Knox of Pennsylvania...
...Hamilton Foley has incorporated ex-President Woodrow Wilson's speeches in defence of the League of Nations into one small, neat volume.* He has, moreover, added thereto Mr. Wilson's address to the representatives of those nations assembled in Paris to impose peace terms upon those nations vanquished in the World War; a number of criticisms of the League from the now Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Taft, ex-Secretary of State Elihu Root. These latter, the editor of this book asserts, are " not generally known to students and to critics of the Covenant of the League of Nations...
...speaking, Mr. Debs referred to his stay in the Atlanta penitentiary for War-time offences. Said he: "I stood where Woodrow Wilson stood within five weeks of the entry of America into the War. But he changed suddenly. I didn't. He was elected President for keeping us out of War. I was sentenced to ten years for trying to do the same thing. I refused to allow the United States Government to put a padlock on my lips. I had rather a thousand times be a man without a country than a man without a character...