Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill. To persuade them that the President is still their best bet in the White House, National Democratic Chairman Farley last week patched together a Veterans Advisory Committee of Spanish War Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, et al. To head this committee he appointed fat, jovial Louis Arthur ("Louie") Johnson, onetime (1932-33) National Commander of the American Legion. Legionary Johnson is also an Elk, a Shriner, a Mason and an Odd Fellow, all of which sodalities consider him a "regular fellow," a potential vote-getter...
Having already received his Bonus along with 3,500,000 other veterans, West Virginia's Johnson last week trumpeted: "The Roosevelt Administration has been eminently fair to ex-soldiers. There has been more done on hospitalization for veterans in the past few years than in any comparable period. . . . The Bonus is not an issue...
...Owen Johnson has been married five times, has written three classics (The Varmint, The Tennessee Shad, Stover at Yale), has worked for the Republican National Committee (1920), the Democratic National Committee (1928), has ten times won the gentleman farmers' exhibit of fruit, vegetables and flowers at the Stockbridge, Mass. Grange Fair. Last week his first public office sought him. To his swank Stockbridge home trooped several hundred neighbors headed by Harvard Instructor William Ellery Sedgwick, nephew of venerable Editor Ellery Sedgwick of the Atlantic Monthly. Tumbling their words excitedly together, they asked 58-year-old Novelist Johnson to become...
...Novelist Johnson deliberated, finally accepted, declared: "When Warren Harding was nominated I saw the light and left the party because I believed Harding's nomination was a sign that liberalism within the party was dead. I am wholeheartedly back of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Games. Wildly excited crowds watched four track & field events run off the first two days. Winners: U. S. Negro Jesse Owens (100-metre dash); U. S. Negro Cornelius Johnson (high jump); Germany's Hans Woellke (shot put); Finland's Ilmari Salminen (10,000-metre...