Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coal. Hiram Johnson is in the Senate to represent California, but his eyes squinted with emotion, his white crest shook with vehemence, as he asked last week for an investigation of bituminous coal mining in Pennsylvania...
...voice was heard in the U. S. Senate for more than a solid hour. He told as horrid a story as the Senate had heard in years, a story of "dark evils of bloody warfare, sickness, suffering, hardship, privation, want and hunger. . . ." It was Senator Hiram Warren Johnson of California describing, not without politico-oratorical flourishes, the condition which Pennsylvania permitted its two-and-a-half-year-old coal strike to reach this winter (TIME...
...Senator Johnson's speech was florid but fair. It outlined the causes and history of the strike. It repeated the miners' charges, the operators' defense and countercharges. It laid blame heavily, but more important than laying blame it focussed public attention upon immediate, imperative necessities to which blame seemed irrelevant...
Though he had not been over the ground himself, Senator Johnson had collected an anthology of eye-witness accounts which he read into the record. That most of these accounts came from sources which would ordinarily be called "sensational" or "sentimental" made them all the more reliable. To extreme situations, only extremists can do justice. Excerpts from Senator Johnson's anthology...
Among the Johnson items are his New Testament, with three chapters supplied in Johnson's writing. These are the first and second chapters of Matthew and the last chapter of The Revelation. A letter from Johnson to Sir Joshua Reynolds who painted the famous portraits of Johnson; the first edition of Boswell's "Life of Johnson," the copy presented to Sir Joshua Reynolds, another later edition, presented to Mrs. Williams are also in this collection...