Word: woodrow
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...they are now known locally as the "Hal Hayes type." One subcontractor, V. E. Lowry, said that Hayes had first avoided paying him for renting several pieces of earth-moving equipment, then offered him 50? on the dollar-and withdrew the offer after Lowry accepted. Last September, County Judge Woodrow Bean wrote to President Eisenhower, Senator Lyndon Johnson and others charging that "the conduct of the contractor has established a pattern which indicates a deliberate plan not to pay for equipment rented." 34-Minute House. Hayes has been an unusual operator in the construction industry from the start. When...
...Samuel Gompers (1850-1924), a British-born Jew of Dutch parentage, was a founding father of the U.S. labor movement and first president of the A.F.L. His window, at the rear of the south nave over the tomb of Woodrow Wilson, is dedicated to artisans and craftsmen. Among the eight scenes are Noah building the Ark, the building of King Solomon's temple and the building of Washington Cathedral...
Died. Colonel Henry Breckinridge, 73, onetime (1913-16) Assistant Secretary of War, markedly independent Democrat and Manhattan lawyer, who was Charles A. Lindbergh's counsel and unsuccessful intermediary after the kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. Leaving Kentucky at 27 to join Woodrow Wilson's Administration. Breckinridge fought hard to improve the pitifully weak U.S. Army, resigned when he felt that he had failed, and subsequently saw action in France during World War I. Later, he broke ranks to run against F.D.R. in four presidential state primaries in 1936, as a protest against...
...Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Va., but his lifelong loyalty was to New Jersey...
...belligerents, complaining only "of the stench of peace." Rant & Rave. The peace left Italy with little to show for its half million dead. Beginning with nothing but bluff, strut and 287 men. D'Annunzio made his famed "march" (by -truck much of the way) on Fiume. which Woodrow Wilson thought should belong to one of his creations-Yugoslavia. Eventually D'Annunzio was driven out of the city by Italian naval fire, but not before he had lived for 15 fantastic months like a Renaissance prince, entertaining streams of ambassadors, pilgrims and mistresses. Soon everyone was sick of this...