Word: watsonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quiet as a schoolroom, before he would permit Chaplain E. Barney Thorne Phillips to pray. The President's call was read, four Senators were sworn in. Ohio's Burton delivered a long, moving eulogy of the late ambassador to France, Myron Timothy Herrick. Then Indiana's Watson, now officially the majority leader, uncrossed his legs, swung himself out of his seat, moved adjournment, thus postponing commencement of the Senate's work until another...
...Hiram Watson Sibley '31, of Rochester, N. Y., was yesterday appointed to the position of second assistant manager of the baseball team, after a competition which has been going on since the beginning of the season. Sibley thus earns the right to be the third manager who will accompany the team on its Southern trip. He will be assistant manager next year and manager in his Senior year...
...smiling prophet of woe, Indiana's Senator Watson, now Republican leader, went to the White House to tell President Hoover that the special session of Congress would probably extend through the summer and into the autumn. President Hoover heard this prediction without...
...during Senate sessions he can be found in his aisle seat, behind an embankment of papers and books, hard at work. No hail-fellow-well-met, he is not on easy, congenial terms with the average handshaking, backslapping Senators. His Republican colleagues preferred Indiana's easy-going Watson to him as Republican leader to succeed Charles Curtis...
...Follette−"affects the hirsute adornment of a drug-store yahoo and practises the political disingenuousness of a Jim Watson...