Word: wilsonian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote may seem very trifling, yet to Colonel William A. Gaston it means the loss of a senatorship. In 1916, by voting against. Wilson and since then by consistent opposition to Wilsonian policies which are still one of the textbooks of Democracy, he has brought upon himself complete repudiation by the Democratic National organization. Not an out and out repudiation, but a fatal negation of encouragement...
That the people of the United States discredited Mr. Wilson's assumed authority as their true representative was partially demonstrated in the recent election. Accordingly, the League is a Wilsonian and not an American product. To say that the signature of the former President obligates the United States to ratify the Covenant and the Treaty is outside of common sense. The American people deeply regret the present situation, but refuse to be responsible for it. The stand of the new administration in this regard is in accordance with the wish of the majority. Perhaps M. Viviani will return to France...
...incapable of discerning "the signs of the times"--signs which have been repeatedly thrust upon its attention. Rather more is it probable that Mr. Wilson and his coadjutors are attempting, in a last-minute scramble, to make the country pay, in armaments, for its refusal to join the Wilsonian League of Nations, or else, by threats of the ever increasing military and naval debts to be incurred while enjoying "splendid isolation," force the United States to enter the League in sheer desperation...
...with that of the nation as a whole. For reasons of class feeling the college public feels kindly disposed toward that brilliant example of its own scholasticism, Woodrow Wilson. Its leaders and student body have for years built up in their minds the pre-disposing background for acceptance of Wilsonian ideas. Moreover, the scholastic fatuity for generalization, natural to their methods of thought, renders college intellects susceptible to the merits of principle that any Wilson scheme is sure to contain, and dull to the faults of application...