Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those Washington newspapermen who are hostile to Magnus Johnson last week scrutinized his senatorial record...
Senator Magnus Johnson paid a unique compliment to Senator Heflin...
...Johnson's most justly famous speech on the floor of the Senate was the one in which he pronounced Mc-Adoo "Micky Doo." The sole disturbance caused by him was an attack on the press gallery for alleged misrepresentation of his grammar and accent...
...colleagues have shown him every courtesy. Mr. Pepper took him to his Philadelphia home?a house located in the Colonial street where the Declaration of Independence was signed, and characterized by Mr. Johnson as being "in an alley where Mrs. Johnson would not think of living...
With "hundreds of vacant chairs meeting his gaze," Senator Hiram Warren Johnson caused his voice to reverberate through the cavernous recesses of a Newark, N. J., auditorium. "Secretary Mellon is the real head of the Government!" he roared. "He should be nominated for the Presidency, and not merely someone to represent him. You may fire a Denby; you may attack a Daugherty; but when you attack a Mellon you touch the supersensitive nerve of finance and big business and the whole Government trembles...