Word: watson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...already Justice Roberts was getting into the case of Newshawk Morris Watson, discharged by the Associated Press for union activity. Presently it appeared that Newshawk Watson had won because AP was engaged in interstate commerce and collective bargaining did not interfere with the Constitutional Freedom of the Press. On the latter point Justice Sutherland dissented on behalf of the four conservatives of the Court. But the major question of whether the Act was valid for ordinary industries was not settled, nor was it settled by the next case. This time Mr. Roberts read again, a unanimous decision, ordering the Virginia...
...good newspaperman would rather have his name above a story than in it. Last week Morris Watson, legal guinea-pig of the American Newspaper Guild's test case against the Associated Press (TIME, June 29 et seq.), not only had his name in a story but that story was before the Supreme Court of the United States and its climax became the law of the land...
Child of Trouble. The night Morris Watson was born his mother died, and his house burned down. That was in Joplin, Mo., Jan. 29, 1901. He ran away from home in 1915 having completed but one year of high school; 1916 found him a soldier in the U. S. Army on the Mexican Border. A year later he landed in France, a private in the 18th Infantry, 1st Division, A.E.F. Hotheaded, he was swapping punches with a sergeant inside a barracks room one day when another soldier entered, started helping the sergeant. Watson grabbed a chair and knocked the newcomer...
...Dean Hanford '17; Chester N. Greenough '98, instructor in English; and Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene. Graduates on the Committee are William Edmunds '00, George Whitney '07, and Charles C. Buell '23; while George S. Ford '37, Walter B. Page, 2nd '37, and Robert B. Watson '37 represent the undergraduates...
...Committee, of which he is chairman, is composed of Dean Hanford, Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, Chester N. Greenough '98, professor of English, William Edmunds '00, George Whitney '07, Charles C. Buell '23, George S. Ford '37, Walter H. Page, 2d '37, and Robert B. Watson...