Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln it was not possible to accord him the privilege of explaining his deed to the ladies and gentlemen of a radio audience...
...buzzing in the Palo Alto living room became a loud caucus of triumph. John Philip Sousa's band blared its best. The President-elect was sitting down at the moment. He did not get up at once but sat, eyes downcast, embarrassed, rubbing his forehead with his fingertips. They wanted a speech. "Not tonight," he said. Outside the house, a phalanx of Stanford University undergraduates yelled persistently. The President-elect reluctantly took his way to the terraced roof of his house, under the California stars. Tears glistened on his cheeks as he looked down on that fragment...
...went over to the General Motors Building to telegraph Mr. Hoover and say goodnight to Mr. Raskob. John William Davis was there, smiling. "We're used to it," said Mr. Davis. "Maybe 25 years from...
...opportunity to vote for a home boy, 610 to 66. It may also have comforted him to know that he had received more actual votes than any man who had ever previously run for President. If his total popular vote should exceed 18,000,000, it would be double John W. Davis' vote in 1924. And most of this he could rightfully attribute to himself rather than to the power of his party or the shrewdness of campaign managers...
...John J. Raskob, cheerful, used to vicissitudes, perhaps something of an opportunist, said: "... we ... shall take our place in the ranks of the majority of American citizens whose desire is the future welfare of our country." He was not to return to General Motors. Perhaps, said rumor, he would head a bigger & better motors combine, with du Ponts in it. Perhaps he would retire to his bayside estate among his children, farms, sailboats...