Word: watterson
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First editor of the Courier-Journal was Colonel Henry Watterson ("Marse Henry") who helped to found it by a merger in 1868. A bellicose, one-eyed, ex-Confederate cavalry scout with walrus mustaches, Colonel Watterson knew 13 U. S. Presidents, thoroughly approved of only one: Abraham Lincoln. He took keen pleasure in abusing each of the others in turn, whether Democrat or Republican...
...Courier-Journal Colonel Watterson said flatly that Theodore was "as mad as a March hare," suggested that his family ought to lock him up before he did more harm. Another time he called Roosevelt "as sweet a gentleman as ever scuttled a ship or cut a throat." When World War I began, Marse Henry wrote: "We must not act either in haste or passion." But it was his habit to end his editorials with the cry: "To hell with the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs...
Judge Bingham, nominal editor of the Courier-Journal for ten years, doubled its circulation, upheld the national reputation that Colonel Watterson had given it. But he left the editorial page to Harrison Robertson, and in 1929 resigned the title to him. (Judge Bingham became Franklin Roosevelt's Ambassador to Great Britain, died in office two years ago.) Editor Robertson never worked for any other paper. He had been 60 years a member of the Courier-Journal staff when he died last fortnight...
Died. Harrison Robertson, 83, editor-in-chief of the Louisville Courier-Journal who in 1885 was given charge of the editorial page by the late famed publisher Colonel Henry ("Marse Henry") Watterson; of a heart attack; in Louisville...
High, Wide and Handsome (Paramount). The night in 1859 that Peter Cortlandt (Randolph Scott) takes his grandmother down to Titusville, Pa. to see a medicine show, the show-wagon burns and they take the proprietor's daughter back to their farm. Pretty Sally Watterson (Irene Dunne) is a great help around the barnyard. It takes her longer than it should to make Peter propose but that is because Peter is a trifle backward. Eventually they marry and plan a house on the hill above the cow pasture. All this, told with a maximum of apple-blossoms, old songs...