Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Contrary to general expectation Calvin Coolidge was picked, 50,379 votes to 27,340 for Hiram W. Johnson to head the ticket. The corresponding Demo-cratic place went to Wm. G. McAdoo by a substantial majority over Henry Ford, and the Farmer-Labor place was won by La Follette over Ford...
...Champions of the Progressive battle line met in the tents of the Capital?Hiram Warren Johnson and Gifford Pinchot, conferring in private. "An alliance?" the conjecturers exclaimed. But the chieftains were terse in their descriptions of their meeting...
...fine, friendly conversation," averred Mr. Johnson...
...Magnus Johnson, great-voiced Senator and farmer from Minnesota, delivered a speech on Peace which was broadcast from Washington by the Radio Corporation of America (WRC). In part, he said: "Peace is more conducive to happiness than is war. . . . My idea about bringing about peace is: When disputes between nations arise they should take time to get together and talk things over before they rush at each other's throats...
...Cambridge; Henry Morgan Bohlen of Ipswich; James Cowles Hart Bonbright of Rochester, New York; Walter Lincoln Boyden Jr. of Camridge; Joseph Kinney Collins of Dorchester; Byron Ritter Cutcheon of Long Branch, New Jersey; John Huston Finley Jr. of New York City; William Thomas Heagney of Worcester; George Reebie Johnson of Chicago, Illinois; Sylvester Baker Kelley of Reading; James Smiley Murphy Jr. of Brookline; Howard Parker Sharp of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...