Word: johnson
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This speech won Alf Landon little credit for originality or perspicacity. First reply to it-like the first reply to Franklin Roosevelt's fireside chat the week before -came from Columnist Hugh Johnson on his conveniently-timed Bromo Quinine program. Not satisfied with disparaging Alf Landon's argument, he mocked Alf Landon's pronunciation by repeating a Landon slip: "attackted." In Manhattan next day, Herbert Hoover said tersely "It was a good speech" but failed to send Alf Landon congratulations...
...Pettus defeated Eaton 6-2, 6-3; Coquillard defeated Cummings by default; Kaufman defeated Flickinger by default; Eaton defeated Watkins 6-2, 6-1; Kahu defeated Bernhard by default; Winn defeated Meier 6-2, 6-2; Pressly defeated Thoron 6-1, 6-4; White defeated Johnson 6-2, 9-7; Fox defeated Frisoli 6-1, 613; Lane defeated Medalia 614, 3-6, 6-1; d'Autremont defeated Scott by default...
Busiest of the President's 50,000,000 listeners last week was his onetime aide, Hugh Johnson, who last month started a series of 15-minute broadcasts four times a week for Grove's Bromo Quinine, in addition to his daily Scripps-Howard column in which he has become one of the New Deal's sharpest critics. During the "fireside chat" Hugh Johnson took notes on what the President said. Three minutes after the chat was over, on the air at his usual time, he undertook to rebut some of his former chief's points with...
...high cost of living," ad libbed Hugh Johnson, "has depended for some time, and will continue to depend, more on what happens in Washington than on any other single cause in this country...
Died. Robert Underwood Johnson, 84, poet, onetime (1909-13) editor of Century magazine, onetime (1920-21) U. S. Ambassador to Italy, director of the New York University Hall of Fame; one of the founders of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in Manhattan...