Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elbow during the two-hour conference were Secretary of State Stimson and Secretary Mills. Speaker Garner, Majority Leader Rainey, Ways & Means Chairman Collier and Senators Harrison and George represented the Democracy in Congress. Eminent Republicans included Minority Leader Snell, Representatives Hawley. Treadway and Bacharach of Ways & Means and Senators Watson and Reed...
...home town of Dayton (where Colonel Deeds's estate is one of the show places) is always called "The Cash." In its day it was one of the great business training schools, turning out also Richard Grant of General Motors' Chevrolet Division, President Thomas John Watson of International Business Machines, President Alvan Macauley of Packard. But now The Cash and the times have changed. So high-pressure were Founder Patterson's sales methods that today the U. S. market is saturated; 55% of N. C. R.'s business is done abroad where shopkeepers still toss centimes...
...again sufficient conversions are claimed to produce the 49 majority. Senate Drys who have lately swung to Repeal if not to beer include Arkansas' Robinson, Mississippi's Harrison, Ohio's Fess, Georgia's George, Arizona's Ashurst, Washington's Dill, Michigan's Vandenberg, Tennessee's McKellar. Republican Floor Leader Watson last week declared he was for 2.75% beer because "it doesn't mean anything?it's only slop...
Indiana's James Eli Watson, long-legged, large-stomached, small-eyed leader of the present Republican Senate majority of one, was defeated by Democrat Frederick Van Nuys, Indianapolis attorney. President Hoover, campaigning in the State, had made a warm personal appeal for Senator Watson's reelection. Watson entered the Senate in 1917, succeeded Charles Curtis as G. 0. P. leader in 1929. Long a Dry, he ran as a Resubmissionist. Senator-elect Van Nuys, a longtime Democratic worker, favors Repeal and beer. There was a real partisan revenge in the defeat of New Hampshire's Senator since...
...Joseph E. Thompson, $100,000; to Relict Gertrude Hickman Thompson, $7,756,755 in trust and the $1,000,000 Yonkers house; to Daughter Margaret Hickman Schulz Biddle, a $5,756,555 trust fund. Birthdays. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, 80; Ida Minerva Tarbell, 75; Senator James Eli Watson of Indiana, 68; Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Belgium's heir, 31. Died. Frances Burnett, 22, vanilla extract scioness; Frederick Lothrop Ames Jr., 29, Boston socialite, president of Skyways, Inc.; and Frank Penrose Sproul, 25, Harvardman, assistant manager of Skyways, Inc.; instantly, when Ames's cabin monoplane went into a tail...