Word: watsonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Judge--Oswald Tower, Andover. Linesman M. W. Sonders, Milton. HARVARD 1928 YALE 1929 Hammer, Dearborn l.e. r.e. Lyman, Jackson Hemminger, Wilson l.t. r.t. Springer Cushing, Turney l.g. r.g. Blaser, MacDonald Fox, Hodges c. c. Huggins, Smith Adams r.g. l.g. Poor Henman r.t. l.t. G. Smith Allen, Lomasney r.e. l.e. Watson, Folger Heard, q.b. q.b. Lashnitz, Fearing Barbee l.h.b. r.h.b. Fearing., Phillips Van Rensselaer, Ellis r.h.b. l.h.b; Carson Mulliken, Long f.b. f.b. Hoffman
Immediately Senator Watson from his hospital bed in Indianapolis denounced this story as the "fabrication of a disappointed office-seeker." Two days later in his last radio speech before election day, he talked about the tariff and had soft words for everyone...
...returned to Watson and he told me my application must have the indorsement of D. C. Stephenson. I asked if Walter Bossert [then grand dragon of the Indiana Klan] would do and he said, 'Hell, no! Bossert will soon be removed...
...Bossert was forced to resign because he would not support James Watson. According to some testimony, Senator Watson was present at the conference which ousted...
...more than a political hangover which reminds Republicans how bad they were the ( night before. The Klanish horde of 400,000 in 1923 and 1924 has now dwindled to some 17,000 faithful morons. The principal result of the investigations seems to have been to crystallize resentment against Senator Watson, hitherto a Republican power and presidential possibility. He is described by Frank R. Kent, able correspondent of the Democratic Baltimore Sun, in no mild language...