Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months on such hors-d'oevres as the Dempsey-Tunney fight, the death of Rudolph Valentino, Queen Marie, the Hall-Mills case, Aimee McPherson, President Coolidge's sportive antics in the Adirondacks, and Peaches Browning, there must certainly appear symptoms that need the cear sort of diagnosis that Mr. Johnson has provided...
What is news? "In general practice," says Mr. Johnson, "news is what is in the newspapers; and newspapers are what newspapermen make them. It is a depressing reflection, rather a terrible reflection. But it is true." That this is pessimism there can be no denying. But that it is side-stepping the issue, as it may seem to many, is hardly true. Mr. Johnson has devoted almost a hundred pages to an elaboration of the principle of that dog-bitting man who has been so often slandered in this connection, and one feels with him at the end the futility...
...early subscribers to your magazine. I came to feel it was propaganda from a certain attitude; and disliked it. I remember writing to you my objections to the ungentlemanly way you had of referring to Senator Johnson of, Minnesota as "Magnavox" thus ridiculing his baptismal name, one of the holiest of any man's possessions...
According to James Weldon Johnson of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, enforced servitude of Negroes is not uncommon. Most common, said he, is the trick of keeping ignorant Negroes in perpetual debt...
...Samuel Johnson probably best expressed the opinion of Anglo-Saxons on this point. Said he: "All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it. . . . We know our will is free, and there...