Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tall and slender as a mast, with a voice like a wind murmuring among the halyards, went unostentatiously about his business. Fess, coming forward in a halting defense of his brother Ohioan, Daugherty, met the biting attack of the active, relentless Norris. While from the farthest cor ner, Magnus Johnson, in broad Swedish accent, vouched for the distress of the farmers and threatened, if he were re-elected next Fall, to "but in" on their behalf as he had not done during the apprenticeship of his brief ad interim term...
...Negro. In a contest over the delegates from Mississippi, Perry W. Howard, a Negro, secured the seating of his delegation in preference to that of M. J. Mulvihill, Republican National Committeeman from that State. The most spectacular contest was over the delegation from Georgia. "Colonel" Henry Lincoln Johnson, who is National Committeeman from Georgia, brought a contest to unseat the so-called J. L. Phillips faction. It did not seem that he would succeed. Being a lawyer-a brilliant and able lawyer, according to Negroes who know him-he presented his own case. He paced up and down before...
...Committee voted 22 to 14 to seat the Johnson delegation. But The Washington Post paragraphed ironically...
Hoover's rise in the past few weeks has been as sudden as either Jameson's or Johnson's. He was dropped with the third University crew just prior to the departure of the first squad for Philadelphia for practice on the Schuylkill river during the spring recess. Thereafter he rowed on the Senior Class Crew. When the decision was made to incorporate, the Sophomore A crew into a second University crew to row in the American Henley Regatta at Philadelphia, Hoover with Johnson was advanced to the second crew. He retained his position when the crews went...
...outstanding feature of the exhibit is a book issued by the Harvard Press which received the medal awarded to the best volume printed under ordinary trade conditions, and not in a limited edition. The book is "Dr. Johnson: a study in Eighteenth Century Humanism", by Percy M. Houston; it was designed by Bruce Rogers. The Harvard Press also published four other books of the fifty selected, all of which were designed by Mr. Rogers. They are: "Modern Color," by Cutter and Pepper; "Prophets of yesterday," by John Kelman; "Wordsworth in a New Light," by Emile Legouis; and "A Handful...