Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Will you please tell me more about this gentleman? My tastes and his seem to be very similar, and my curiosity is aroused. May I ask his age, if that is not too personal. And is he a descendant of the great James Boswell, the disciple of Dr. Samuel Johnson? When my brother and I are in New York, next November, I would like Mr. Boswell to come and dine with...
...lunchers well knew, Senator Johnson had been fighting for years to have the Federal Government block up the Colorado River with the Boulder Dam (between Arizona and Nevada) and give Los Angeles a bigger & better water and power supply. They also knew that the Issue forecast by Senator Johnson is against what is commonly called the Power Trust, meaning the potent, propagandizing private interests who have sought to prevent the erection of a Federal project on the Colorado...
...lunchers also knew that this particular speech opened Senator Johnson's campaign for reelection, a campaign in which he was supposed to be fighting beside and with California's favorite son, Nominee Hoover. The only conclusion the lunchers could draw was that Nominee Hoover, in conference with Senator Johnson last fortnight, must have agreed to be on the Federal-operation side of the Boulder Dam question...
Considered as an Issue, Boulder Dam is not an inter-party but an intraparty Issue, a cross issue. Loudly as California's Johnson may roar against the Power Trust, there are other Republicans, for example Utah's Smoot, equally effective in its defense. Among Democrats, the same split exists. Smith Democrats, if their chief continues consistent with his State record, will be found on the Federal-operation side, with the Johnsons and (unless signs have misled) the Hoovers. Opposed will be old-linesters, like Maryland's Bruce, who think that the Government should be kept from stepping...
...experience befell three Boy Scouts now photographing wild animals on the high equatorial plateau just east of Lake Victoria, Africa. The boys-Robert Douglas, 16, of Greensboro, N. C., David Martin, 15, of Austin, Minn., and Douglas Oliver, 15, of Atlanta, Ga., are with Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson. Their message reached George Palmer Putnam, publisher, backer of their expedition, last week. Each boy has killed his lion. When they return this autumn they will write a book, Three Boy Scouts in Africa, for Mr. Putnam to publish. Commander Byrd last week was trying to choose a Boy Scout...