Identifier: storyofgreatestn09elli (find matches)
Title: The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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k The United States—Democracy in Control 1^85 defeating the more conservative wing of his party, and the convention finallynominated Woodrow Wilson, former president of Princeton University, asits candidate for the higher presidency. Mr. Wilson held the bulk of Demo-cratc votes and was thus elected by the largest electoral vote any president hadyet received, 435. Roosevelt, as the Progressive candidate, ran second with81 votes, and Taft, the ultra-conservative Republican, had only 15. The coun-try was thus placed in the hands of a thoroughly honorable, independent,scholarly and yet progressive Democratic president. President Wilson made 1913, the first year of his administration, mem-orable by the passage of three tremendously important administrative meas-ures. His presidential platform had pledged him to these, and he energeticallyforced them into law despite determined opposition not only from the Republi-cans but from within his own party. The first of these measures to go intoo

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