Word: watson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month Stockholder James Watson Gerard, Wartime Ambassador to Germany, parted the secret folds sufficiently to learn that the company's listed assets of "$92,000,000 in Government and other marketable securities" had declined $28,000,000 in book value (TIME, May 8). At the same time, Frank Altschul, chairman of the Stock Exchange List Committee, made public a year-long file of correspondence between his body and Allied Chemical. Mr. Altschul, Lazard Freres partner and brother-in-law to New York's Governor Lehman, had politely and persistently asked for a complete statement of the company...
...Sardinias y Montalvo ("Kid Chocolate"), generally acknowledged featherweight champion of the world, is a wiry, knob-fisted Cuban Negro whose quick, malicious dexterity makes him one of the most exciting fighters in the world to watch. His opponent in Manhattan last week was a serious little Englishman, Seaman Tom Watson, who acquired a strange flat-footed technique by learning to box on the heaving deck of a battleship. The best featherweight in Europe, he began to commute to the U. S. for fights last autumn, returning after each one to tend the Newcastle bar which he bought...
That was the high point of the fight. Too wise to give Chocolate another opening, Watson chopped at him warily for the next four rounds. In the 12th. Watson cut Chocolate's lip with a right uppercut. He won the 15th as well, but both judges, the referee and most of the crowd agreed that Chocolate still deserved his title...
...contains only a few dozen English words, Kid Chocolate makes himself a nuisance to his indulgent Cuban manager, Luis Gutierrez, by misbehaving instead of training. After a month's rest, Champion Chocolate will go abroad for four bouts, one of them a return match against Seaman Watson in London...
...accompanied on the piano. The primary pupils furnished a 30-piece orchestra. High school students strutted in the costumes of the past 50 years. Parents looked over exhibits of school work. None was happier than the stout, genial. soft-spoken old Quaker for whom the celebration was held-Thomas Watson Sidwell who founded Friends' School, taught there until ten years ago, is still its principal...