Word: watson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...July the 'hoppers sprout wings and take to the air, may do even more damage after flying has started than when crawling. Last week Watson Davis, reporting for Science Service, told how some curious person had marked a squadron of 'hoppers with luminous paint, to see how fast the crawling horde was moving. Speed...
Nearest thing to a spokesman in Berlin for the gold billions in the new U. S. strongbox at Fort Knox, Ky. was distinguished-looking President Thomas John Watson of International Business Machines Corp., leader of the U. S. delegation and promptly-elected President of the International Chamber of Commerce. The June issue of Think, International Business Machines' house organ, modestly omits to mention that President Watson was presented to King George VI at a levee during the Coronation period, otherwise is a banner Coronation issue, crammed with 82 pictures of Coronation events and socialites. Facing a full-page picture...
After the Coronation and levee, where President Watson's picture was taken emerging in his Court costume beside some British guardsmen in towering busbies (see cut), Mrs. Watson accompanied her husband on an inspection trip to Paris, for he is U. S. Commissioner General to the French Exposition. The flooding Seine had stopped work on the U. S. Pavilion and energetic Commissioner Watson managed to fit in a quick business trip to Manhattan before speeding back across the Atlantic last week to Berlin...
...eyes of most U. S. businessmen, the Chamber of Commerce is important locally, the national Chamber of Commerce is a good thing but vaguely so, and the International Chamber of Commerce is also good but even vaguer. Germans last week had marked able President Watson as apt at least to consecrate an issue of Think to the Nazi Reich. They hoped he would speak up loudly in behalf of shipping some Kentucky gold to Germany, and they felt that as President of the I.C.C. he rated the new "Merit Cross" just created by Adolf Hitler and first bestowed on Benito...
...morning last week Franklin Roosevelt, leaning on the arm of stalwart Naval Aide William Watson, emerged from the front door of the White House, an infallible sign that an international potentate is about to arrive. Cantering up the steps soon came a slender young couple smiling gaily at the beaming President. Premier & Mme Paul van Zeeland of Belgium were honored and delighted to meet Franklin Roosevelt. A few minutes later they were all three motoring together to the waterfront to board the Potomac and cruise down to Mount Vernon...