Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Hiram Johnson attacked "certain great interests" (public utilities) in control of elections in Illinois and Pennsylvania, and cast aspersions upon the Coolidge Administration for not denouncing these interests. Senator Johnson was applauded...
...Connor, 79, M. P. and a veteran of Fleet Street (which in London parlance is synonymous for journalism), was one of the guests of honor. As he strode into the low, planked ceilinged room in which a table was set for 50, he noted the portrait of Samuel Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds that adorns a space above the fireplace and he noted, too, the heavily timbered windows that shut out much of what little light streams in from the narrow Wine Office Court, a lane hardly more than three feet wide, on which the Cheshire Cheese abuts...
Other famed-people who ate there were Voltaire, Bolingbroke, Pope, Congreve. But, perhaps, none were so famed in his day as Samuel Johnson, who was wont to congregate there with his cronies Oliver Goldsmith & Thomas Chatterton. The Doctor always made for the left hand room and sat at a table near the window?a table and seat that is now pointed out with great pride to visitors. It is related that he would sit there for hours looking at the buxom dairymaids making cheese, afterwards explaining the merits of his famed dictionary to his friends. Exhausting this subject...
...summary: HARVARD EXETER Edwards, Baldwin, Upton l.e. r.e. Winston, Kimball Warner l.t. r.t. Forrestall, C. Tyson Johnson l.g. r.g. M. Finlayson, D. Finlayson Richards, Gildea c. c. M. Tyson, Robinson Gade r.f. l.g. Bourgeois Trainor r.t. l.t. Myerson, Sullivan Ogden r.e. l.e. Reisner, Cuen, Burrage Gilligan, McGinness, Fullem q.b. q.b. Coombs, Reid Batchelder l.h.b. r.h.b. Muhlfeld, Green Talbot, Huguley, Davis r.h.b. l.h.b. Gilligan, Shepherd Ticknor f.b. f.b. Currie, Plaisted...
HARVARD 1931 EXETER Edwards l.e. r.e. C. Tyson Warner l.t. r.t. Finlayson Johnson l.g. r.g. M. Tyson Richards c. e. Bourgeois Gade r.g. l.g. Myerson Trainor r.t. l.t. Snedecker Ogden r.e. l.e. Kuehn Gilligan q.b. q.b. Coombs Talbot l.h.b. r.h.b. Gilligan Batchelder r.h.b. l.h.b. Mulfeldt Ticknor f.b. f.b. Currie...