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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jersey be considered a great stronghold of political independence. Not since the days of Woodrow Wilson have Jersey voters demonstrated a desire for progressive leadership--and Wilson was at first only the creature of a Democratic machine aiming to regain a superficial tint of honesty...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Burial Ground For Liberalism | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

...steel-nationalization issue-one of the Labor Party's surviving oldtime doctrinaire goals-would unite his divided party. But Veteran Labor M.P. George Strauss, who in 1948 piloted the Labor Government's original steel-nationalization bill through Commons, was critical of the measure. Desmond Donnelly and Woodrow Wyatt, the moderate Labor M.P.s who last year bedeviled Wilson's attempts to nationalize steel (TIME, May 14, 1965), again sniped nastily from the backbenches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Travel & Travail | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...part-time hero status to its Presidents. Andrew Jackson probably makes it, though more because he was Old Hickory "who brought the people into the White House" than because he was the victor of New Orleans. Teddy Roosevelt may have changed the course of human events less significantly than Woodrow Wilson, who led the U.S. into World War I. But Teddy's robust vigor captured the American imagination, while there lingered about Wilson, even in his martyrdom, a distressing air of the austere schoolmaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ON THE DIFFICULTY OF BEING A CONTEMPORARY HERO | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

...duties of every college man to become well versed in the great questions confronting this nation today and by so doing to fit himself to meet those questions squarely." Shortly afterwards committees were formed to work for the three major presidntial candidates, President Taft, Theodore Roosevelt '80 and Governor Woodrow Wilson...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, | Title: Class of 1916 Watched As Lowell Rapidly Changed the University | 6/14/1966 | See Source »

...College-wide straw ballot gave Woodrow Wilson 920 votes, Theodore Roosevelt 739 and President Taft 732. On election night students gathered in which received them from a Naval Broadcasting station...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, | Title: Class of 1916 Watched As Lowell Rapidly Changed the University | 6/14/1966 | See Source »

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