Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finley Peter Dunne, John Erskine, Montague Glass, Owen Johnson, Rupert Hughes, Anita Loos, Anne Nichols, Channing Pollock, Sherwood Anderson, H. L. Mencken−and 149 other novelists, poets, composers, playwrights, publicists−as an Author's Committee...
Alarmed, peppery little Senator Carter Glass of Virginia sent a telegram to Manhattan. Reassuring, lively little Chairman John J. Raskob of the Democracy telegraphed back: "The story of Jack Johnson being authorized to speak on behalf of the Democratic National Committee is cheap Republican propaganda. Johnson has no connection with this committee in any capacity...
...Johnson, onetime (1908-15) world's champion heavyweight pugilist, is working locally for the Democrats. Last December he was made a Democratic Committeeman in the Second Ward of Chicago. The theory was that he, one of the most famed Negroes of all time, could do much toward organizing the Chicago Black Belt the way Harlem had been organized by the New York Democrats...
...January, Committeeman Johnson reported to TIME...
...Disgust" with the G. O. P.'s "lack of honor" in "repudiating" its pledges to the U. S. farmer-John Napier Dyer, Indiana fruitgrower, longtime Republican. Similarly, Magnus Johnson, onetime (1923-25) U. S. Senator from Minnesota, Farmer-Laborite...