Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orator, ex-Oxonian Frank Aydelotte presented the President (through General Watson as proxy) for his degree. Lord Halifax read his diploma: ". . . Whereas Franklin Delano Roosevelt . . . has at all times been in the fight for peace, justice and freedom. . . ." General Watson read Franklin Roosevelt's reply...
Invited to his alma mater's 290th commencement, Franklin Roosevelt, '04, last week told Harvard at the last moment that he could not make it. In his stead, he sent his military aide, Major General Edwin M. Watson. As "Pa" Watson sweltered on the commencement platform in a tight, white dress uniform, Harvardmen wondered why he was there. They found out. In a hot Cambridge, sultry with rumors, academic history was made...
...Army camps, but last week, after six months of confusion and lack of funds, the Government began to get somewhere with it. The job had been given to a single group-the semi-official Citizens Committee for the Army & Navy, Inc., headed by smart President Thomas John ("THINK") Watson of International Business Machines Corp. Under Chairman Watson was a theatrical subcommittee headed by Broadway Producer Vinton Freedley (Anything Goes, Red, Hot and Blue...
Peter Macgowan '42 of Adams House and Los Angeles, California was elected captain of the Varsity golf team in a meeting of the entire club yesterday afternoon. He will succeed Watson B. Dickerman of Long Island as captain of the squad...
...bright on the shiny cars, on the people, as dressed up to see the President as if they were going to church-all this made a background for the President's words, as fitting as the words themselves. From Charlottesville, where he had been resting in "Pa" Watson's three-roomed guest house, the President had motored along the ridges above the Shenandoah Valley, through miles of green pine and spruce, past miles of mountain laurel and white dogwood. At the dead-end of a one-way street, facing a hill that led to the main part...