Word: watsonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Speaker's state of mind. What perhaps amused him most, what certainly incensed the Senate most, was the frequent charge that, like Nero, the Senate had fiddled while U. S. business burned (TIME, Dec. 2). Like many another, the Speaker had observed the Neronic figure of Senate Leader Watson, helpless to extinguish the spreading blaze of Senate insurgency...
Shamed by the House's despatch on tax reduction, the Senate began an attempt at imitation. Finance Committee approved H. J. Res. 133 quickly, unanimously. Out upon the Senate floor, however, it stirred old dissensions. Republican Leader Watson wanted to set aside the tariff bill for the tax bill. Others clamored for a completion of the tariff wool schedules first. Western Senators scowled at reduction of the corporation tax, beneficial chiefly to eastern industry. Senator Couzens of Michigan complained that the consumer, having already paid the 1929 tax to corporations, would not profit by that phase...
Leaders. While Mr. Morrow will have no official standing as a Senate leader because of his lack of seniority, he will nevertheless be able to exert a strong Hoover influence on the Senate's nominal leadership. Senator James Eli Watson has made such a poor fist of leading the Senate since last April that his Republican followers have been casting about for a means of displacing...
...receive their ballots in tomorrow morning's mail. FOR PRESIDENT Thomas Wilson Dunn Fellowes Morgan Pruyn Edward Henry McGrath John Newlin Trainer Jr. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT Richard Chanler Aldrich John White Hallowell Emil Joseph Des Roches Edward Bernard Murphy FOR SECRETARY-TREASURER Stephen Pierce Duggan James Hopkins Smith Hiram Watson Sibley Edward Kuhn Straus
...programs offered on the tour will include numbers given in the Hingham and Roxbury Latin concerts. Among the featured specialties will be J. S. B. Archer '30, tenor soloist; the Hawaiian Trio, composed of Eustis Dearborn '32, R. S. Watson '32, and R. B. Harrison '32; and DeWitt Stetten...