Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Rear Admiral David Watson Taylor, 76, chief of construction for the Navy during World War I, largely responsible for the design and completion of more than 1,000 vessels, famed as a naval innovator; in Washington. In 1931 he was awarded the John Fritz medal, top honor of the engineering profession...
...week, nevertheless, 150 Guild delegates met in Memphis without Boss Crump's blessing. Chief issue before them was a factional fight over the re-election of a small group of Manhattan executives (including Vice President Milton Kaufman, Secretary & Treasurer Victor Pasche, both paid officials, and Vice President Morris Watson, paid by C. I. O. as a union organizer) who actually run the Guild. Back of this factional fight was a bitter controversy...
...officers. Insurgent Candidate Kenneth Crawford, who had filled out Heywood Broun's unfinished term, went down in defeat. By a vote of 78⅔ to 66⅓ Regular Candidate Donal Sullivan became the Guild's new president. Secure in the saddle remained Milton Kaufman, Victor Pasche, Morris Watson...
...minutes late. Said he with a grin: the elevator (to his second-floor quarters) had stopped; somebody had turned the power off; he did hope that there was no connection with what had happened in Philadelphia. Correspondents saw the President glance at his secretary, Brigadier General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson, heard Mr. Roosevelt stage-whisper to a companion: "He is grinning like a Cheshire cat." And well might Pa Watson have grinned: he won a $25 bet on Wendell Willkie's nomination...
...last week's tournament, run on a point basis like a track meet, the University of Michigan finished first with 26 points. Williams was second with 25, University of Detroit third with 24. Highest individual scorer was Williams' Bill Watson. He won all his club's points: first in spot-landing from 500 ft., second in bomb-dropping, third in spot-landing from...