Word: watsonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young stockbroker in skirts.f For Miss Cleary is pretty. Last week she saw screen star Nita Naldi and a prize beauty off for Europe on the midnight S. S. Paris. Flashlight men found her more smartly dressed than the former, prettier than the latter. Under the hard daylight of Watson & White's uptown stockbrokerage office in the Hotel Berkeley, she is thought still prettier...
...with rivers and dams and husbanding food through lean seasons. Any man of distinctive personality and appearance resembles some animal. Senator Borah is a bear; Secretary Mellon, an aging horse of fine blood; Senator Heflin, an astounding whale calf; Senator Johnson, a caged lion; Senator Norris, an owl; Senator Watson, a roguish elephant; Charles Evans Hughes, a lofty mountain goat; Will H. Hays, a monkey; Curtis Dwight Wilbur, a stork. Herbert Clark Hoover is a beaver-man, aged 53, in his prime...
Against. The following Republicans are opposed, more or less openly, to Herbert Clark Hoover's nomination: Candidates Curtis, Dawes, Lowden, Norris, Watson, Willis; G. 0. Politicians in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois (the so-called Six Big States, with a total of 337 delegates, which the G. O. Politicians hope to take to Kansas City uninstructed, for "trading" in a hotel-room nomination...
...Watson. In Indiana, Candidate Watson & friends found a kettle as black as their pot. They found, or said they found, Will H. Hays & friends behind the Hoover candidacy there. No denial coming direct from Candidate Hoover, the Watson-Hoover battle in Indiana temporarily assumed the aspect of local gang...
...would be opposed. Candidate Willis would oppose him. Candidates Lowden, Dawes, Curtis, Watson would oppose him. Ohio would oppose him. They would all oppose him. "All Republicans! ALL AMERICANS! ALL VOTERS! . . . Mr. Hoover will be defeated in Ohio...