Word: watsonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House. President Hoover called Senators Watson and Reed to the White House. When they returned to the Capitol, they were asked to explain the Presidents' tariff position. Senator Watson spoke with assurance of a "sane and sensible" tariff revision, of a "yardstick of adequate protection." Promptly from the White House came a denial that Senator Watson had been authorized to voice the Hoover views. Democrats jibed that the President must therefore favor "an insane and senseless" tariff revision without any reasonable measurement for protection. The White House the next day denied its first denial, which left the President...
British Women's Doubles-won by Mrs. Phoebe Watson & Mrs. Peggy Saunders Mitchell, England; at Wimbledon...
...affidavit repudiating his claim, that Senator Watson was a Klansman was prepared and, when Rogers refused to sign it, his name was clumsily forged to it. For this forgery one man has already been sent to prison. Plaintiff Rogers now seeks settlement from the rest who, he believes, tried to discredit...
...Washington Defendant-Leader Watson mopped his face, tried to remain "good natured...
That is why it seemed unusual and significant last week to hear gracious, scholarly Henry Watson Kent, secretary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, than whom Art has no more steadfast devotee, say at the anniversary ceremonies of the Yale School of Fine Arts...