Word: watsonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House the President summoned High Tariff Lieutenant-General Watson and Generalissimo Smoot. He asked first one, then the other about prospects of Tariff Bill early passage in the Senate. Mournfully Senator Watson predicted that the special tariff session of the Senate would end without passing any Tariff Bill. Less pessimistic. Senator Smoot conceded a "chance" of a final Senate vote on the tariff next month...
Loud then was the outcry within the Republican ranks, loud then the catcalls across the trenches. Brigadier Bingham protested that, sadly ignorant of tariff warfare and needing counsel, he had followed a natural course. Great-bodied Lieutenant-General Watson, nominal chief of all the Republican forces, cried faintly that his subordinate had done quite right. Tall, thin, generalissimo Smoot tried to tell how he had warned his ignorant comrade to send the man Eyanson away, which was done. But these cries were drowned by the angry outbursts of Insurgent Brigadiers Norris and La Follette...
...denied that he had been asked by President Hoover to put manganese on the free list. denied that he had changed his vote upon the question (TIME, Aug. 26). General Couzens cried that the motion to abandon the sector had been made by "our leader" (i. e., Lieutenant-General Watson...
Behind the Lines. Republican Major General Watson left the battle lines and, rushing to a radio microphone, broadcasted reassuringly to where the home fires were being kept burning. Excerpts from this notable oratory...
Behaviorism believes that "behaviour of man from infancy to death is the subject-matter of [human] psychology." Behaviorism's chief exponent, John Broadus Watson, says: "Thinking is merely talking . . . with concealed musculature...