Word: watson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...message as an encouragement to horrid revolt in Puerto Rico, Rear Admiral C. J. Peoples of the Treasury Department's Procurement Division solemnly demanded an explanation, let it be known that the murals were not finally approved nor paid for. Greatly amused, however, was energetic Forbes Watson of the Treasury's division of painting and sculpture. Said he: "In the first place there aren't many who can read Eskimo around Washington-and I doubt that the Puerto Ricans can. In the second place it requires a magnifying glass to make the writing legible...
...years ago Rev. Arthur J. Watson, of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Pawtucket, R.I., wrote and published two love songs-Longings and A Persian Love Song. This summer, on his vacation at Narragansett, R. I., Mr. Watson made a point of meeting Nudancer Sally Rand, who suggested he send her copies of his songs. When he got back to Pawtucket, Mr. Watson promptly dispatched them to her, said she could use them without charge in her act. Commented Mr. Watson: "I found she is a most maligned young woman: I don't know whether she is a college...
...solicitors from whom Broker Young would gladly have purchased $15,000 worth of soap wrappers were a group of pressure salesmen who got a 50% commission on campaign book sales. Senator Wheeler read a letter from Manhattan Lawyer Watson Washburn who said he had been notified that one of the salesmen who had approached Broker Young was one N. M. Lichtblau. Wrote Lawyer Washburn...
...Rochester's five hospitals in which they and their staff practice. The oldest of these is St. Mary's, founded and operated by Franciscan nuns. The other hospitals and largest of Rochester's 34 hotels are owned by the Kahler Corp., of which Roy Watson, a hotel manager, is head and in which Harry Harwick, business manager of the Mayo Clinic, has a substantial interest. Some of the Kahler hotels have hospitals on the premises. Three hotels and three hospitals are connected with the Mayo Clinic by underground passageways...
...Noble Kizer, Purdue University athletic director and head football coach, of nephritis, in La Fayette, Ind.; New York Timesman Walter Duranty, after an abdominal operation, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore; Edgar Watson ("Ed") Howe, 84, famed onetime publisher of the Atchison (Kans.) Globe, of overwork, in Atchison; Bill Owens, captain of the New York Giants professional football team, after an auto collision, in Kingsley, Kans...