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...scoffers, changing their tune, began to speculate on Roger Lapham as a successor to aged (77), ailing U.S. Senator Hiram Johnson, who has been absent from the Senate most of the time in the last three years...
...Governor. Earl Warren brought as much life to California's government as his family did to the mansion. Californians, looking at his first-year record, had to go back to the turbulent first year of Hiram Johnson's administration (1911-17) to find a yardstick by which to measure their new governor. Warren has yet to equal Johnson but he has chalked up some solid accomplishments...
Most of the people the Coopers and Hewitts knew were inventors or financiers of inventors. Readers of Those Were the Days get an impression of a nationwide intoxication with applied mechanics. Hiram Maxim's new improvements on electrical devices made equipment obsolete so fast that the electrical companies sent him abroad for ten years, with a contract not to invent anything electrical during that time. Restless, he invented the machine gun (for which Queen Victoria knighted him). When he demonstrated it before the Kaiser, Wilhelm asked to try it out, swung it in a circle, almost killed the whole...
...been 90-to-6.) Against the Resolution: the Midwest's triumvirate of old-style isolationists, Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, North Dakota's William Langer, Wisconsin's Robert La Follette, North Carolina's Reynolds, Montana's Wheeler (who had supported the League until 1923); and Hiram Johnson...
Retailers blamed wholesalers for their troubles, wholesalers blamed distillers, and distillers blamed the public for: i) supporting black markets, 2) refusing to switch from whiskey to relatively plentiful drinks. "The public is behaving very badly about the liquor situation," moaned a Hiram Walker man in Chicago. "When they go to a store and can't get butter, they realize there's a war on. But when they can't get whiskey, they raise hell...