Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Columnist Hugh S. Johnson: "Such a move would be in accord with the President's high idealism but ... we could not possibly enter another of these colossal games of international strip poker without losing something." Said Columnist Dorothy Thompson: "Some of [the President's] weaknesses are again revealed: lack of realism and often faulty judgment ... a tendency to wishful thinking and a belief that saying something persuasively enough might make...
...Magnus Johnson, onetime (1923-25) U. S. Senator from Minnesota, at Litchfield, with pneumonia; Governor Charles Ben Ross of Idaho, Democratic rival of William Edgar Borah for the U. S. Senate, at Boise with neuritis; Senator William Gibbs McAdoo of California, at Santa Barbara with a carbuncle. Snapped he into a radio microphone at his bedside: "The party of Lincoln ... is nothing more than a racketeering gang led by millionaire privilege seekers and tax evaders, with a following of inflammatory demagogs and Democratic renegades in the pay of the Liberty League...
Onetime National Commander of the American Legion Johnson remarks: "The Bonus is not an issue." That is correct; but the two vetoes of the Bonus are an issue...
Celebrated slick-paper Fictionists Patterson McNutt, Grover Jones, Gene Fowler, Nunnally Johnson wrote a story, signed it "Don Marquis," sold it to the 'Saturday Evening Post, to Paramount Pictures. To Author Donald Robert Perry ("Don") Marquis, (The Old Soak), ill in bed, went the two checks as a present...
Died. Lincoln Steffens, 70, famed old-time muckraker; of heart disease; in Carmel, Calif. A bearded, sparkling, elfish skeptic, he exposed Tammany's Boss Croker, Cincinnati's Boss Cox, publicized Cleveland's Reformer Tom Johnson, Wisconsin's Reformer Robert La Follette, concluded in his Autobiography that bosses "seemed more honest" than reformers...