Word: watterson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Benjamin Hill & Co.: Samuel S. Fontaine, onetime cub reporter under the late great Col. Henry Watterson; for more than 25 years Financial Editor of the New York World...
Louisville was a logical place, and at the same time a fearsome place, for a Democratic speech on the tariff. It was in Louisville, in the columns of his Courier-Journal, that the late Col. Henry Watterson (1842-1921) used to thunder about the tariff. It was Col. Watterson who called the Democratic party "the star-eyed goddess of tariff reform" and who in 1884 coined the oldtime phrase, "A tariff for revenue only," a phrase repeated in national Democratic platforms as late as 1920. Nominee Smith had the double problem of breaking away from the revenue-only tradition...
...Reader Watterson send photographs not of the plow alone but of Inventor Roe & plow, of Inventor Roe plowing...
JEROME P. WATTERSON Albany...
...shame, a burning shame is this to the lofty toned America of 1917 and 1918. A lasting insult to the men of 1776 who fought our battles and won our freedom for us. The writer is not a swearing man; if he were he would lift aloft the Henry Watterson war-cry in the late Hohenzollern strife and paraphrasing it devoutly cry: 'To hell with the name Rainier from Mount Tacoma...