Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they twitted Senator Magnus ("Magnavox") Johnson about his Swedish accent; jibed at the silence of President Coolidge; had a bogus official with much chin foliage sing...
Last week another vast business passed, from the family that built it, toward the hands of the public. Eldridge R. Johnson, the Camden, N. J., mechanic who 32 years ago took the squeak out of toy phonographs like the ones he saw at Coney Island; his son, E. R. Fenimore Johnson, and his secretary, H. R. Hathaway, turned over a majority holding of common stock in the Victor Talking Machine Co. to J. and W. Seligman & Co., Manhattan brokers, and Speyer & Co., Manhattan bankers. For all 348,863 shares outstanding, the buyers were prepared to pay some 40 millions hospital...
...Judge Cardoza said I was 'a great civic institution.' My law partner, Samuel Untermyer, called me 'the most prodigious worker I have ever known.' Besides members of my own race, such men as Elihu Root, James W. Wadsworth Jr., Justice Harlan F. Stone, George W. Wickersham and James Weldon Johnson wrote tributes which were published in the current issue, dedicated entirely to me, of The Jewish Tribune. An editorial in that magazine proclaimed me 'the acknowledged leader of American Jewry,' and, like Joshua, who succeeded Moses as the Jews' leader, a 'prince in Israel' who had neither inheritance nor riches...
...books and conversation impress sloop captains, who mention him to Governors, one of whom, the windbag of Pennsylvania, starts him off to England but fails to provide promised letters. The pushful youth suffers penury, for the sake of seeing Dr. Johnson's London, for 18 months. He returns to Philadelphia saddened by bad friends, broadened and a complete "extrovert," determined...
...Johnson once said, "When I was a boy. I used always to choose the wrong side of a debate, because the most ingenious things, that is to say the most new things that could be said upon...