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  • Wilson, Woodrow 4

    Wilson, Woodrow 4 in United States Wilson, Woodrow 4 See: Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow 2 Wilson, Woodrow 3 In his annual message of December 1918, Wilson announced that he would go in person to Paris to aid in the negotiation of a world peace. The leaders of the Senate warned […]

  • Wilson, Woodrow 3

    Wilson, Woodrow 3 in United States Wilson, Woodrow 3 See: Wilson, Woodrow 1 Wilson, Woodrow 2 Wilson, Woodrow 4 Wilson was renominated. The Democratic platform simply approved the Wilson policies and asked that he be returned to office on the ground that as President he had kept […]

  • Wilson, Woodrow 2

    Wilson, Woodrow 2 in United States Wilson, Woodrow 2 See: Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow 3 Wilson, Woodrow 4 This work at Princeton had made Wilson widely known in the United States as an educator. Before it took its final turn in 1910, Col. George Harvey, representing the […]

  • Wilson, Woodrow

    Wilson, Woodrow in United States Wilson, Woodrow See: Wilson, Woodrow 2 Wilson, Woodrow 3 Wilson, Woodrow 4 WILSON, Woodrow (christened Thomas), 28th President of the United States: b. Staunton, Va., 28 Dec. 1856. He is the son of Scotch-Irish parents, who had lived in […]

  • Education, Theological

    Education, Theological in United States Education, Theological EDUCATION, Theological. A system of training for the work of the ministry. From remotest times religion centred in ritual acts and gave rise to a system of training men to fill the office of the necessary priesthood. The priests […]

  • Great Expectations

    Great Expectations in United States Great Expectations GREAT EXPECTATIONS  (1860-61), among the last of the novels of Charles Dickens, is one of the less important and widely-read of his works. It marks, however, a reversion to an earlier type of his fiction, wherein the characters, rather […]

  • Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

    Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in United States Carnegie Endowment for International Peace CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR   INTERNATIONAL PEACE , an institution created and maintained by a fund of $10,000,000 set apart by Andrew Carnegie in 1910. The purpose of the Endowment, as outlined […]

  • Lincoln, Abraham 4

    Lincoln, Abraham 4 in United States Lincoln, Abraham 4 See: Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, Abraham 2 Lincoln, Abraham 3 A marked example of both the sagacity and the magnanimity of the President is found in his selection of Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War upon the early […]

  • Lincoln, Abraham 3

    Lincoln, Abraham 3 in United States Lincoln, Abraham 3 See: Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, Abraham 2 Lincoln, Abraham 4 The State was carried on the popular vote, but the existing apportionment gave the advantage to Douglas who was returned to the Senate by a majority of five. […]

  • Lincoln, Abraham 2

    Lincoln, Abraham 2 in United States Lincoln, Abraham 2 See: Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, Abraham 3 Lincoln, Abraham 4 In politics the young statesman was of the minority faction. The Democratic party was dominant in both his State and the nation, such opposition as there was […]

  • Lincoln, Abraham

    Lincoln, Abraham in United States Lincoln, Abraham See: Lincoln, Abraham 2 Lincoln, Abraham 3 Lincoln, Abraham 4 LINCOLN, Abraham, 16th President of the United States: b. in a rude farm cabin near Hodgensville, Ky., 12 Feb. 1809; d. Washington, D. C, 15 April 1865. The […]

  • Eddy, Mary Baker

    Eddy, Mary Baker in United States Eddy, Mary Baker EDDY, Mary Baker, discoverer and founder of the religion (theology and practice) which she named Christian Science, and founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Mrs. Eddy (at first Mary Baker) was born at Bow, near Concord, N. H., 16 […]

  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

    Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von in United States Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE, g?’t?, Johann Wolfgang (von), German poet, novelist, playwright, scientist and critic of life: b. Frankfort-on-the-Main, 28 Aug. 1749. From his father, a well-to-do lawyer who practised but little, he inherited […]

  • Jay, John

    Jay, John in United States Jay, John JAY, John, American statesman and jurist: b. New York, 12 Dec 1745; d. Bedford, Westchester County, N. Y., 17 May 1829. His father was a wealthy merchant of Huguenot stock; and his mother a daughter of Jacobus Van Cortlandt. His father, — early […]

  • Sumner, Charles

    Sumner, Charles in United States Sumner, Charles SUMNER, Charles, American statesman: b. Boston, 6 Jan. 1811; d. Washington, D. C, 11 March 1874. His family was English in origin, Charles being a descendant in the seventh generation from William, who came to America about 1635 and settled at […]