Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hampshire's Senator Bridges persuaded the Senate Military Affairs Committee to call Ambassador to Germany Hugh R. Wilson. If, as reported, Hugh Wilson does not see Europe as Franklin Roosevelt was shown it by Bill Bullitt & Joe Kennedy, the committee was not so informed. In net effect, Mr. Wilson gravely underlined the Bullitt-Kennedy reports (TIME, Jan. 23). Whereas those gentlemen talked at length, Mr. Wilson talked hardly at all. The situation, he said, was too grave for discussion...
...toured England and the U. S., playing, speaking at dinners, lobbying with politicians, devoting all the proceeds of his concerts to Polish relief. At this tea-table politics he was a great success. In 1917, with the help of his close friend, Colonel House, he prevailed upon President Wilson to include an independent Poland in his proposals for European peace. When, at the end of the War, the Allies asked Paderewski to organize a stable Polish government, the pianist took up politics in earnest. In a vote like a crashing chord the Polish Parliament voted their confidence...
Died. Dr. Clarence True Wilson, 66, famed Prohibitionist, longtime (1910-36) general secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals; of uremic poisoning, complicated by a heart attack; in Portland, Ore. As leader of the U. S. Prohibition forces, ruddy-faced, goateed Prohibitor Wilson used to stump every State, speak before societies and clubs, at country fairs, on street corners and on emptied beer barrels. Of late he had devoted himself to his hobbies-simplified spelling, cattle breeding, a theory that John Wilkes Booth escaped his pursuers...
...quietly, departed from the Court the man whose appointment to it by Woodrow Wilson in 1916 shocked every then living ex-president of the American Bar Association including William Howard Taft; raised a storm in Senate and press that echoed long after he took his seat on the bench. Mr. Taft later apologized to Mr. Brandeis for doing him a "grave injustice." But many of his contemporaries lived and died in the belief that Louis Brandeis, the "People's Lawyer" of Boston where he practiced for 37 years, the courtroom David against the industrial and financial Goliaths...
High Jump--Won by D. H. Wilson, Leverett; second, W. Campbell, Kirkland; third, G. I. Cushman, Dudley; fourth, R. H. Sullivan, Lowell. Height--5 feet, 8 inches...