Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Loudest Republican group demanding that the G.O.P. adopt a forward-looking world-minded attitude toward foreign policy is the Republican Postwar Policy Association, headed by Deneen A. Watson of Chicago. Curly-haired, self-assured Deneen Watson, 39, a brash newcomer to national politics, is a successful tax attorney whose dabbling in Illinois politics included the managing of Governor Dwight H. Green's downstate campaign...
...months ago Lawyer Watson decided that if the G.O.P. was to clear its skirts of isolationism, quick action had to be taken. He organized his association, promptly got financial help ($40,000) from lean, cadaverous, Denison B. Hull, wealthy Chicago manufacturer of hearing devices. Lawyer Watson's tactics were to go to the people, conduct an educational, door-to-door campaign to wake up the G.O.P. He denied that his group was a stalking-horse for Wendell Willkie, but old-line GOPoliticos did not believe...
...organization grew, held regional meetings. Fortnight ago, in Manhattan, Watson's R.P.P.A. warned the G.O.P. that isolationism means defeat in 1944. Said Member Mayo A. Shattuck, president of the Massachusetts Bar Association: it would be a calamity if the election of a Republican ticket should mean "another gang of inward-turning, narrow-minded stuffed shirts...
...Tedder's garden in Cairo to Nazi Hans Dieckhoff's quarters in the German Foreign Office in Berlin. (Said Dieckhoff, the last Nazi Ambassador to the U.S., "Russia opposes Germany's destiny." Said Taylor, "Who doesn't?") They include an interview with Sir Robert Alexander Watson Watt, developer of radar. "Forget the impossible," Watt said. "Few things are impossible." They include a vivid picture of Woodrow Wilson shortly before his death, when young Henry and his father visited the stricken ex-President. "He was not feeble. Often his right arm struck the air in a weird...
...President, the House was trying to knock off three small-fry New Dealers. One was Robert Morss Lovett, 72, Government Secretary of the Virgin Islands, oldtime liberal, war horse of pacifism, longtime English professor at the University of Chicago.* The other two were FCC employes: Psychology Professor Goodwin B. Watson of Columbia and William E. Dodd Jr., son of the late Ambassador to Germany...