Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Board of Governors also voted into membership a Negro, Municipal Court Justice James S. Watson of New York City.* At its final session, the convention resolved that "membership in the American Bar Association is not dependent on race, creed or color." But Applicant Rivers is still waiting...
Never, in all of the years of their relationship, did the Master use those profane words ["Quick, Watson, the needle!"] to his Boswell. His addiction to drugs was an early and passing phenomenon, inspired by boredom and abandoned in the maturity of his years. . . . But even in the days when the needle lay beside the gasogene and tantalus, Holmes did not stoop to call for it in such undignified terms...
...these beauties," he told Guide MacKenzie. All in all, around 100 bass were taken (biggest: 4 lb. 2 oz.), five pike and pickerel. The Old Fisherman got most of them. Some others who wet a hook: Admiral William D. Leahy, Vice Admiral Wilson Brown, Major General Edwin M. Watson, Rear Admiral Ross McIntyre, James F. Byrnes...
...Watson group had reserved an elephant-sized needle for cautious, compromising Harrison E. Spangler, G.O.P. national chairman. Last week Watsonites journeyed to Washington, gave Harrison Spangler the full hypodermic. He did not react. The meeting was distinctly cool. To a hint from Harrison Spangler that Watson is trying to split the G.O.P., Watson replied that he only wanted to help the G.O.P. win an election. With a huff & puff, Mr. Spangler informed the R.P.P.A. that he would be glad to submit their proposals to the Republican Postwar Advisory Council (formed by Mr. Spangler last May), which meets next month...
...Watsonites went on their way. But they are determined that the Mackinac session shall not adopt any flannelmouthed, weasel-worded program as the Republican set of foreign-policy principles. If that happens, reasons Watson, a lot of new Republican converts are going to relapse to Franklin Roosevelt...