Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleaded guilty to tossing a metal wastebasket, a telephone book, an ash tray and other furniture oddments from an 18th story window during a downtown Willkie parade. Said Miss La Roue, denounced by the President, and straightway discharged from her job: "Something came over me." Her victim, Miss Betty Wilson, got twelve stitches in her head, flowers, national sympathy...
Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma chimed in with the assertion that the U. S. is "taking step after step in the wrong direction, which might precipitate her into the vortex of armed conflict." Spokesman Suma paid his respects to a suggestion by Publisher Roy Wilson Howard that the U. S. send a commission to Japan to improve U. S.-Japanese relations. Such a commission could be effective only if the two Governments were in agreement on fundamentals, said Yakichiro Suma, "and they have no mutual grounds any more...
Although the President has not yet decided on what will constitute non-combatant duties, a good idea can be obtained from the list designated in that class by President Wilson in 1917. Among the tasks were service in the Medical Corps and service in the Quartermaster Corps, including such jobs as veterinary hospitals, bathing and laundry services, map-making, and forestry service...
Robert H. Loeb 3L, Birmingham, Ala.; John F. O'Conor 2L, Cincinnati, Ohio; Wilson C. Piper 2L, Caribou, Me.; John B. Poor 3L, Andover, Me.; John N. Stern 2L, Chicago, Ill.; Robert O. Swados 3L, Buffalo, N. Y.; John R. Taylor 2L, Chicago, Ill.; Leonard Ugelow 2L, St. Albans, N. Y.; and Joseph M. Well 2L, Chicago...
Cole cited the lives of Edison, Ford, A1 Smith, Woodrow Wilson, Harding, and now, Wendell Willkie, as example of former newsboys who have become successful, and pointed out that experience selling papers builds character in young boys. A great supporter of youth, the "King" claimed that the "boy is father...