Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Like Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge in the White House promoted intimate publicity by letting the Press learn the comings and goings, the small doings of himself & relatives. Like Woodrow Wilson, President Hoover objects to such family publicity. He considers the private side of his life and of those about him something in which the public can have no legitimate interest. To him the White House is a home as sacred from intrusion as his own Palo Alto residence. Yet last week he put aside his distaste for this type of publicity to the extent of allowing two of his grandchildren...
First the Drys met as members of the National Temperance Council. Then overnight they shuffled offices and titles and became the National Conference of Organizations Supporting the 18th Amendment. Present were all the prime professional Prohibitors-Francis Scott McBride (Anti-Saloon League), Clarence True Wilson (Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals), Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole (Women's Christian Temperance Union), Ernest Hurst Cherrington (World League Against Alcoholism), Oliver Stewart (Flying Squadron Foundation), Daniel Alfred Poling (World Christian Endeavor), Clinton Howard (National United Committee on Law Enforcement), Arthur James Barton (Southern Baptists), William Sheafe Chase (International Reform Bureau...
...already wrapped in a cocoon of legend: the man who, at 32, was the youngest U. S. Senator ever to sit legally; who, a fighting colonel of field artillery, nearly completed an attempt to kidnap the Kaiser from a castle in Holland as a Christmas gift to President Wilson. With Banker-Promoter Rogers Clark Caldwell, he bought the Memphis Commercial Appeal and Appeal (evening) for $3,600,000 in 1927, the Knoxville Journal in 1928 to add to his Nashville Tennesseans (morning and evening); also with Caldwell he nearly bought the Atlanta Constitution...
Four years before he was elected to his first public office (Governor of New Jersey ). Woodrow Wilson made a remarkable address to the members of Manhattan's erudite Lotos Club. Last week the Lotos Club again served as a forum for a No. i Democrat-Owen D. Young. Not Mr. Young, as honor guest, but Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, the club's president, gave the event a political twist. Introducing Mr. Young as a "public servant," Dr. Butler said: "Whether a public servant receives office or not is accidental, and if that public servant does assume office...
...Miller has served in many public offices, now is general counsel for U. S. Steel Corp., of which he is a director and member of the finance committee. His firm's clients include Continental Can, Crucible Steel, estate of Nicholas Brady. The other Mr. Miller is William Wilson Miller, senior partner of his firm since the retirement of the late William B. Hornblower. Charles Anderson Boston is president of the American Bar Association...