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...Watertown, Wis. (pop. 11,300) is famed for its roast goose, stuffed with noodles in oldtime German style, and widely exported. Watertown's most celebrated native is Joseph Edward Davies, once its district attorney, later U. S. Ambassador to Soviet Russia. Watertown sometimes gets into the news when its Tavernkeeper "Turkey" Gehrke takes to his bed, to sleep through the winter. (So far this year, he has not retired.) Last week, Watertown made news for yet another reason: it had its best, and almost its only, high-brow concerts since Fritz Kreisler played there 20 years...
With only two precincts, both Democratic, massing, he defeated Luce in strongly Republican Brookline by 466 votes. In Watertown Luce trailed by about 800 votes...
Francis Hathaway Cummings scholarship to Myles G. Boylan, of Watertown...
...yacht Potomac. At Nahant, Mass, they paused for the President's first look at his newest (tenth) grandchild, two-month-old Haven Roosevelt (who declined to smile for Father John and Grandfather Franklin). At Boston Navy Yard Mr. Roosevelt saw eight destroyers under construction. At the Watertown Arsenal there was the Army's new 90-mm. antiaircraft gun. He saw the torpedo station, Navy Training Station and War College at Newport, R. I., the new naval air base at Quonset Point, submarines at New London. Conn. All these he judged to be proof that U. S. Defense...
...preparatory hum spread through the U. S. last week. Army arsenals at Rock Island, 111., Augusta, Ga., Benicia, Calif., Frankford, Pa., Dover, N. J., Metuchen, N. J.; San Antonio, Tex., Springfield, Mass., Watertown, Mass., Watervliet, N. Y., Edgewood, Md., were put on a six-day week. Two shipbuilders (Bath Iron Works Corp., Federal Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Co.) bid-o build destroyers in 18 months instead A 24. The Du Fonts ar ranged to build and operate a big powder plant financed by the French and British (see p. 79). Chrysler Corp. was ready to produce bomb fuses, shell forgings...