Word: woodrow
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...press corps, the Chicago Tribune's softspoken, acid-penned bureau chief from 1914 to 1949 and close associate of the late Publisher Robert McCormick, whose high-cholered, ultraconservative views he usually reflected; of pneumonia; in Washington Henning knew every President since Theodore Roosevelt, classified him a "outstanding," Woodrow Wilson as "irascible" and Calvin Coolidge, extraordinarily enough, as a man who in private "would talk your arm off if you gave him a chance...
Neither Johnson nor his former Senate colleague is about to engage in a public vendetta. As the President observed privately last week, Woodrow Wilson only aggravated his foreign-policy problems by denouncing antagonistic Senators as a "small band of willful men." In fact, there is far stronger popular support for Johnson's foreign policy than there ever was for Wilson's-whatever Bill Fulbright may think...
Snake Ration. At Fort Jackson last week, Sergeant Woodrow Weaver, a Viet Nam veteran, faced his class, unbuttoned his shirt and casually pulled out a writhing northern pine snake. "Any time you are going through the jungle and come across a nonpoisonous snake," he advised, "pick him up and put him in your shirt. If you find yourself without food, pull him out and eat him." A poisonous snake can also be eaten, said Weaver, "if you cut his head off just below the poison sacs." Pointing out that rattlesnake meat is "considered a great delicacy" (it sells...
...year ago I would have responded with confidence, but now I am not so sure." When the results of the survey were published, Kennedy was pleased that Truman ranked among the "near great," amused that Eisenhower stood near the bottom of the "average" class. He was also surprised at Woodrow Wilson's high rating-fourth on the list, and "great." He remarked that Wilson, "though a great speaker and writer, failed in a number of his objectives." And he wondered about Theodore Roosevelt's "near great" standing. After all, said Kennedy, Teddy "really got very little important legislation...
Hughes's achievement was heightened by the fact that booming New Jersey is fundamentally a Republican state. Until last week, the Democrats had not won control of both houses of the state legislature since the 1912 election, when they swept in on Woodrow Wilson's swallowtails. This year more than ever the issues were made to order for a lively, Lindsay-style Republican. The most densely populated state in the Union (860.3 inhabitants per sq. mi.), New Jersey has almost as many problems as people. State-supported colleges are so crowded that 50% of the qualified applicants have...