Word: woodrow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Inasmuch as this [cost plus] system was approved by Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War, and must have been known to and approved by Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, there was no possible justification for indicting Mr. Crowell and his associates without naming those who appointed them to office and approved their policies step by step...
...claim to being a true Lady of the State Department; her father was John W. Foster, who succeeded James G. Elaine as Secretary of State in the Cabinet of Benjamin Harrison; her husband is Robert Lansing, who succeeded William J. Bryan as Secretary of State in the Cabinet of Woodrow Wilson. Besides her diplomatic antecedents, Mrs. Lansing is at home in such a gathering because of her mastery of both Castilian and South American Spanish, not to mention French. She is a woman of affairs, a graduate of Mt. Vernon Seminary and Smith College, a former Director...
...Woodrow Wilson is one of the greatest men the world has ever produced. He was a great President. . . . His high place in history is secure and the adulation and mouthings of weaklings and demagogues can add nothing to or detract nothing from it."?Senator John Knight Shields of Tennessee, who (with only two other Democrats ?) voted against the League of Nations and the Versailles Treaty in the Senate...
...letter to W. A. S. Furlow of Bristol, Tenn., Woodrow Wilson himself added: "I do not feel at liberty to say more than this: That I regarded Mr. Shields during my administration as one of the least trustworthy of my professed supporters...
...Woodrow Wilson: " F. W. Wile, able Washington correspondent for many dailies, called attention to the fact that I was probably the only President of the U. S. who. while in office, wore the official shield of the Republic. A scarf pin shield was presented me by a Princeton jeweler. I put it on within a few moments after having taken the Presidential oath in 1912. It was seldom missing from my necktie while I occupied the White House...