Word: johnson
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...Jack," said famed Samuel Johnson, "has great variety of talk. Jack is a scholar, Jack has the manners of a gentleman." Jack (John Wilkes, 1727-1797) was also a rowdy, a beerhouse brawler, a blasphemer, a fornicator, a publisher of lewd and libelous literature. He was expelled from the House of Commons, outlawed, deported and cast into prison when, upon his return, King George III refused to pardon him. . . . But Whigs, great, rich, respected, thronged his prison cell, for Jack was a Hero. The freeholders of Middlesex had four times elected him to Parliament and four times the Commons...
Died. Dr. Moulton K. Johnson, 55, Navy hero of first Army-Navy football game (24-0 in 1890); following a fall on an icy walk, at Lafayette...
...this can be accomplished by the use of the system of nominating and voting known as Proportional Representation by the single transferable vote, or, for short, in this country, P. R." continued Professor Johnson who is a member of the Proportional Representative League in connection with such men as Ex-governor Robert P. Bass '96 of Massachusetts, Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of government in the University, and Senator George Wharton Pepper of Massachusetts...
...Proportional Representation," Professor Johnson explained, "is applicaple in the government of any body of individuals, from social, commercial and labor organizations to college classes and to cities, states, and nations. It has long been advocated by sincere well-wishers of popular representative government, notably John Stuart Mill, who was fully aware to its value 60 or 70 years ago. It found acceptance first in other English speaking countries, notably Australia. What has stood most seriously in its path in this country has been the fear that, in spite of the actual simplicity of the voting, it would look too complicated...
...Finally," concluded Professor Johnson, "it makes it easier for the voters to protect their government from undue influence by unscrupulous or over zealous minorities from degenerating into petty strife for personal or factional advantage, and to hold it consistently loyal to the general welfare. Proportional Representation makes the ballot of greater value and interest to the voter, practically every vote helping to elect somebody in every council or legislature. It does away with the primary, not by taking a backward step, but by going forward to something better and more efficient...