Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Twelfth................ 39 11† Thirteenth............. 39 12†38 Fourteenth............... 38 12† 38 voting nearly ended at the eighth ballot. Brookhart, Frazier, Howell, Ladd, Norris, Republican insurgents, voted consistently for La Follette (who was ill and not present). With them voted the Farmor-Laborites, Shipstead and Magnus Johnson. On the seventh ballot all the insurgent group except Howell, Ladd and Norris voted for the Democratic candidate. On the eighth ballot, Ladd joined those voting for Smith-and Smith would have been elect-! had not Senator William Cabell Bruce of Maryland, a Democrat, voted for Senator Cummins...
Senator Bruce explained: "I changed my vote from Senator Smith to Senator Cummins simply because it seemed to me that the Democratic members of the Senate had arrived at a point in the deadlock at which they were merely playing into the hands of the La Follette Magnus Johnson Brookhart radical element. ... I decided that the inevitable split between the conservative and radical members of the Senate had come, and that it was time for me to obey my profoundest instincts and convictions and to part company for a time with other Democratic Senators. ... As far as I am concerned...
...announced that he would sail on Dec. 22 for the Court of St. James. He is ex-Senator Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota. It is not impossible that Mr. Kellogg would have declined the nomination also, had he still been Senator, Nevertheless Senator Shipstead (his successor), Senator Magnus Johnson -both Farmer-Laborites - Senators Wheeler, Dill, Ferris and Copeland- Democrats - and Senators Frazier, Brookhart and Norris-Republicans- voted against the appointment for the reason that Mr. Kellogg had been taken out of politics by the ballot. Seventy-five other Senators, with favorable votes, sped their former colleague from politics to diplomacy...
...this concession to the South? Senator Hiram Johnson declared it was an effort of C. Bascom Slemp to put over the nomination of Mr. Coolidge by patronage-bought delegates from the South. But it is known, on the other hand, that Mr. Johnson's own campaign manager, Frank H. Hitchcock, is an "expert broker of Southern delegates...
Senator Magnus Johnson of Minnesota, of the great voice, was recently the object of the following narrative in the Hearst press...