Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Where might be the-last-place-in-the-world that prohibition agents would look for a moonshine still? One such place might be the clump of trees in the field behind the barn on the farm belonging to Dry Crusader William Eugene ("pussyfoot") Johnson near Smithville Flats, N. Y. So thought some shrewd person. Last week, in the clump of trees in the field behind the barn of Crusader Johnson-who visits his farm only in the summer-State troopers found vats, stoves, coils and 14 copper boilers to contain 200 gallons...
...quietly and motors with ponderous solemnity about his private affairs in an expensive automobile. Doubtless he will say only a few words at the Democratic rallies, but a few words will be enough. Grown impressively corpulent since his greatest day, tailored handsomely, loyally admired, Most Famed-Negro-Citizen ("Jack") Johnson of Chicago might well become, if properly coached, as potent politically as he once was pugilistically...
POKER PARTY AT WHITE HOUSE LUCKY BREAK FOR JACK JOHNSON...
...Jack Johnson (onetime champion pugilist) ever play poker at the White House? Certainly not. Last week Col. Charles R. Forbes, head of the Veterans' Bureau (see p. 18), described a poker party held in the White House library in 1921. The players were President Harding, Will H. Hays, Albert Lasker (shipping board chairman), Harry Daugherty (Attorney General), Harry S. New (Postmaster General), Edward B. ("Ned") McLean (publisher of the Washington Post) and Mrs. McLean...
...During the game," said Col. Forbes, "Ned McLean announced that Jack Johnson, the prize fighter, was to be discharged from the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, and either Ned or Albert Lasker exclaimed, 'Why, his old mother used to work for me and he has a fine of $1000 hanging over him and can't pay it.' Ned McLean said: 'Albert, I'll give $500 and you give $500 and we will pay his fine.' The President spoke up: 'Don't let that worry you: I'll remit the fine,' and the game went...