Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Johnson who is chiefly responsible for the maintenance of the Hall of Fame at New York University and his is much of the credit for perpetuating the memories of our dead great as inspiration and guidance for generations to come. In the words of Dr. Johnson, who some day may be immortalized in the Hall of Fame himself: "The Hall of Fame is not a calendar of saints, but of human beings, each of whom presents some fine equation of greatness. It is not too much to say that the names here recorded and those to be added will...
Robert Underwood Johnson is one of those many-sided men of ' whom the 19th Century was so prodigal. Poet, editor, author, executive, patriot, diplomat: the record of his achievements consumes more space in Who's Who in America than that of any other man, and suggests a varied career that has never brought him entirely into the limelight, or into the twilight of mediocrity...
Indeed, the Italian people have had no more enthusiastic or sympathetic friend than Mr. Johnson. Ambassador Johnson came to Italy after the Fiume incident. Everything American was anathema. Subversion was rife. The Italians thought him a bit gaga, but distinctly simpatico. He seemed such a nice old gentleman, with so venerable a beard. Young attaches of the diplomatic corps thought him a bit pitiful or ridiculous. Yet Mr. Johnson, as he has shown in his delightful reminiscences, was carrying out a policy prearranged with Mr. Wilson, of treating the Italians as children, lovable or naughty. The measure of his success...
...invaded the U. S. Consulate-General at Genoa and ordered the flag half-masted in deference to the funeral of a Red rioter. The Consul wired for instructions. The Ambassador replied in four words: "Keep the Flag flying." To a sophisticated generation this might seem melodramatic, affected. For Mr. Johnson it was the simple expression of a most passionate and unashamed patriotism. In the end it was the sneering young attaches and the hypercerebrated Latins who were stultified...
...Johnson has been a utility man in many fields, in all of which he has earned distinction. His published memoirs, Remembered Yesterdays,* is a book that tells a little of a man whose talents symbolized his century and whose beliefs typify the faiths on which this nation was builded. More, it tells the story of the most momentous cycle the world has yet passed through in its troublous course down the years. Many honors have come to him, but he has first honored himself in ways too numerous to mention. In short, he is a citizen of whom the Romans...