Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During that time McKechnie developed six of the 15 other managers now functioning in the major leagues: Charley Grimm, Pie Traynor, Joe Cronin, Frank Frisch, Jim Wilson, Burleigh Grimes...
...repeal the reforms of Wilson. But we put people back to work...
...Lemmon is no radio newcomer. He was Presidential staff radio officer on the George Washington when it took Woodrow Wilson to the Peace Conference, devised a pioneer ship-to-shore telephone service for that trip, made a fortune from his patent on single-dial radio control and twenty-odd other radio inventions. Also a broadcaster, he is founder president of the World Wide Broadcasting Foundation which owns and operates non-profit shortwave Station WIXAL (Boston), dips into his own pocket to broadcast New England enlight enment to the world...
...exactly what finally happened to the mine. Midway through his book he begins to write less about the lost pleasures of Batopilas, and more about long vacations, about sprees, about squabbles with mean-spirited natives, about the petty thievery among workmen, the stupidity of newcomers, the pusillanimity of the Wilson administration, etc. His story becomes a monotonous recital of how the Shepherd brothers put tough customers in their places, of his political opinions and longings for good days long-past. But if its final impression is one of confusion, The Silver Magnet gives a better picture of capital...
TOCQUEVILLE AND BEAUMONT IN AMERICA-George Wilson Pierson-Oxford ($7.50). In 1835, during Jackson's second administration, Alexis de Tocqueville, an aristocratic radical, published his Of Democracy in America, won instant success in the U. S., France and England. At the age of 25, with his friend Gustave de Beaumont, Tocqueville visited the U. S. He traveled from Green Bay, Wis. to New Orleans, taking notes, talking to bankers, doctors, governors, plain citizens, spent nine months gathering material for a book which required four years to write. In this 852-page study, Author Pierson has carefully retraced the journey...