Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mary Johnson, perhaps taking cognizance of recent figures re shortage of men on her West Coast, makes a plea (TIME, April 24) that older men be sent to war and the younger men stay home because "the country cannot afford further sacrifice of potential fathers." Not to avoid putting on the uniform again, but simply to defend the reputations of those of us who are 40 and over, I protest we are still potential. The late Arthur Brisbane argued and the still kicking Dr. Richard T. Ely (80 plus) is demonstrating that older sires tend to produce intellectually superior offspring...
...Columnist Hugh Johnson wrote: "It occurred to me that for days and even weeks, I have been writing about all this dangerous business in a shrill high pitch. . . . If Hitler can wait a week, I can wait a day or two." To the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he said that the Roosevelt Administration is "a gambling Government. It has shot craps with Destiny . . . at least five times...
With the Confederacy's collapse, Stevens was the driving force behind all measures to grant the Negro full citizenship, to hold the South in military bondage. When Johnson opposed him with Lincoln's moderate policies, Stevens organized his impeachment, marshalled the Republican radicals, browbeat the wavering, traded and intrigued. Failure to impeach Johnson was a severe blow to the aging, implacable Stevens. Shortly afterwards he died. He was buried in a Negro cemetery -"not from any natural preference for solitude," says his epitaph, "but finding other cemeteries limited by charter rules as to race, I have chosen this...
Next, Mr. Ickes got down to the cases of the "snipers and guttersnipers." Snipers were General Hugh Johnson and Westbrook Pegler. "While Johnson is against only those numerous public officials who are bungling affairs that he could so competently manage, Pegler is against everything and everybody according to his whim." Chief guttersniper in Mr. Ickes' category was "Mr. Munchausen," identified in advance copies of the speech as Paul Mallon, although CBS induced Mr. Ickes not to call names over the air. Several of Columnist Mallon's items about Mr. Ickes, Mr. Ickes bluntly charged, were lies...
...consequence of his feud with the press, Secretary Ickes has received more personal attention from the press than any other member of the Cabinet. The Secretary of the Interior's lineage took another bound as a result of his remarks. Next day Columnist Johnson cracked: "The Ick . . . is about as fair as Caiaphas, as objective as a fishwife and as courteous as a hyena. He said in his speech that he wishes I didn't love him so much. Why, gosh-darn it, I just can't help loving a man like that...