Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator's Borah's thunderous speech last fortnight for food relief, President Hoover intimated that he might favor some sort of public aid if private charity failed (see p. 11). Shuttling back and forth for 48 hours between the White House and the Capitol went portly Senator Watson of Indiana, the Republican leader, trying to find a means of silencing Senator Borah, whom he fears, by pleasing Senator Robinson, the Democratic leader, who is determined but reasonable. At length Senator Watson evolved a masterful polysyllabic weasel...
Exactly what "agricultural rehabilitation" meant nobody knew for sure. Democrats were sure it covered food loans. Republicans did not specifically deny this, though the Administration was emphatically on record against the "dole" principle which is what it said feeding U. S. citizens would amount to. Declared Senator Watson: "You can't rehabilitate farms with dead farmers." Speaker Longworth held the money could be used "for anything." House Leader Tilson kept obstinately repeating: "It's not a dole. Remember, it's not a dole...
President Hoover accepted the Watson compromise because it did not specifically provide for food loans. Senator Robinson accepted it because it did not specifically bar them. President Hoover wrote Senator Robinson that the additional sum, which would run the Drought fund up to $65,000,000, would be used for "real aid," be administered "fairly and sympathetically." Both sides claimed a moral victory...
...only Senators disgruntled with the Watson compromise were the Republican Insurgents. They denounced it as a "cheap evasion" of the Relief principle which Senator Borah had so thunderously proclaimed. They argued that farmers without security would not benefit at all. They predicted that Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, archfoe of the "food-dole," would never sanction the use of any of this fund for food for hungry...
...Watson's Bay, Australia, one Charles Messenger caught a shark, slit its belly, found a lady's hand bag containing a wrist watch. Inscription on the wrist watch: "Yours till death. Bill...