Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Lawyer James Watson Gerard, onetime (1913-17) Ambassador to Germany, arrived in Manhattan from Europe last week he was in a critical mood. He said President Hoover should up and say Prohibition is nonsense. He chided Manhattan's bankers for paying more attention to Germany than the U. S. He scolded big corporations for not giving out intelligible statements; he and Mrs. Gerard have some 2,300 shares of General Electric and he defied "any one to tell from the statements of this company what it is doing." Because Mr. Gerard has previously been known...
Leader of the movement seemed to be James Eli Watson, Republican floor-leader of the Senate, commonly regarded as a spokesman for the Hoover Administration. Last week he said: "It is the belief of many that we shall not recover from our present depression until transactions of this kind [shortselling] are either prohibited or greatly curtailed or properly safeguarded. ... I have no doubt that one or more resolutions of this kind will be passed [by Congress]." Since President Hoover last week was conferring with many a financial leader, it was felt that Senator Watson knew whereof he spoke...
Heartily in agreement with Senator Watson were Senators of less orthodox views on financial matters. Iowa's Smith Wildman Brookhart exclaimed that he would see to it that interstate transmission of shortsale quotations is prohibited. Apparently he was unaware that the Stock Exchange's machinery does not include anything which tells whether a seller of stock owns...
...conservative Republicans sounded almost like heresy to their G. O. P. colleagues. Had Messrs. Reed & Bacharach forgotten that a Presidential election was coming, that any tax increase would handicap President Hoover in that race and make campaign cash collections doubly difficult? To offset their words, Senate Leader James Eli Watson trundled down to the White House, talked long and earnestly with President Hoover about taxation. He emerged to use the White House lobby as a sounding board for his fiscal ideas...
Regular counsel for the Star is Watson, Gage, Ess, Groner & Barnett. Senior Partner I. N. Watson is the firm's authority on libel. He defended Henry Ford against Aaron Sapiro, Associated with him in that case was Senator Reed, and last week hard-hitting Lawyer Reed was again called in. White-crested, choleric of complexion, a cigar clamped in the corner of his axe-mark mouth, he will glory in fighting once more "for the People." For whatever the merits of the two sides may be, with Lawyer Reed's party's reputation at slake locally (Governor Woodring...