Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are a number of these to which Hiram Johnson supporters would vigorously contest the Coolidge claim. There are a number of states on the list whose adherence to Coolidge must certainly be qualified. Pennsylvania, for example, can be conceded to Coolidge unquestionably, only if Governor Pinchot does not become a contender, but his recent reticence, the longer it continues, renders that possibility less and less likely. Ohio can be certain for Coolidge only if factional strife within the state organization does not break out anew. Michigan, too, it must be remembered, went for Johnson in 1920. To compensate...
...Hiram Johnson, the only other active Republican candidate for the Republican nomination who stepped over the boundary line from 1923 to 1924, is apparently badly handicapped. His supporters make no small point of the fact that most of the "certain" Coolidge states are from the East and the "patronage bought" South...
...whole, the acting is better than in the ordinary mystery play. Ben Johnson as the millionaire Stockbridge is excellent, and we regret that his early demise prevented his appearance in the second and third acts. A hard, uncompromising, relentless capitalist, he nevertheless excites the sympathy of the audience, especially when he is sitting around waiting to be murdered. At this juncture the stupidity of the detectives reaches its climax; ordinary common-sense would have saved Stockbridge as eventually it saved the daughter. The daughter, by the way, is well done by Kay Laurell although she is a trifle too cold...
Homemaking in Cleveland for the Republican National Convention next June is already being undertaken for prospective candidates. Frank H. Hitchcock visited the city and engaged the entire mezzanine floor of the Cleveland Hotel for his candidate, Hiram Johnson. Coolidge lieutenants arranged for quarters in the Hollenden Hotel, where also will be the Republican National Committee...
Besides this article there is some free verse by Theodore Dreiser; an article on Stephen Crane by Carl Van Doren; letters of the late James Gibbons Huneker; The Aesthete: Model 1924 by Ernest Boyd; an article on Hiram W. Johnson by John W. Owens of the Baltimore Sun; Two Years of Disarmament by "a man who, because of his official position, cannot sign this article"; The Communist Hoax by a member of the staff of the extinct New York Call (Socialist) ; The Drool Method in History by a professor of Smith College; Santayana at Cambridge by Margaret Münsterberg, daughter...