Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Parents' has changed, so have its readers, and each partly because of the other. Said Clara Littledale: "Twenty-five years ago we adhered to a very rigid schedule in feeding and raising children. John B. Watson's theory of behaviorism was the thing at the time. It called for a very detached attitude . . . Raising a child today calls for being warm and affectionate and expressing love for the child . . . We thought they were little adults who were just being naughty; now we know they are children...
Died. James Watson Gerard, 84, topflight corporation lawyer, U.S. Ambassador to Germany during World War I (1913-17); of a bronchial ailment; in Southampton, N.Y. A conservative Democrat, he came, like Franklin D. Roosevelt, from a wealthy old New York family, pleased his countrymen by his brass-knuckled attitude toward Germany's haughty World War I diplomats. When one of them warned that 500,000 Germans in America would rise up if the U.S. entered the war, Gerard coldly replied that the U.S. had 500,000 lampposts from which to hang them. When the U.S. entered...
...Colorado State College of Education awarded I.B.M.'s Thomas J. Watson a D.Sc., then decided to doctor his wife as well (with an L.H.D.). Said President William R. Ross: "Whenever I have heard Watson speak, he has always said he owes his success to his wife...
John Foster Dulles, the pastor's eldest son, was born in 1888, in the Washington residence of grandfather John Watson Foster, who fought in the Civil War, served as U.S. minister to Mexico, U.S. minister to Russia, and, when John Foster was four years old, became Benjamin Harrison's Secretary of State. He was to leave a deep impression on his grandson-recounting his adventures and opening up a world of great events, as man & boy sat hour after hour fishing in Lake Ontario. In 1895, grandfather Foster helped negotiate the end of the Sino-Japanese War, with...
...Money. No one in the Eisenhower camp is worrying about money. None is needed at the moment. But the big money is said to be there for the asking from such men as International Business Machines' T. J. ("Think") Watson and Manhattan's Banker Winthrop Aldrich. Eisenhower's past visits to Texas have brought out some of the biggest of Texas' Big Rich. Houston's Hugh Roy Cullen, oilman and a partner of Jack Porter, is an avowed Ike man. Said a San Francisco money-raiser: "By fall, the Eisenhower movement will be sweeping...