Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HARVARD PRINCETON Cutter, l.w. r.w., Burke Patrick, c. c., Bissell Mechom, r.w. l.w., Woodhull Hicks, l.d. r.d., Miller Emerson, r.d. l.d., Barrett Johnson, g. g., Coleman or Nicoll...
...Johnson in Crimson...
...midst of a Senate squabble on the Housing Bill, Nevada's spare Key Pittman, Chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, rose to answer the charge made day before by California's Hiram Johnson, a fellow committeeman, that the U. S. "had no foreign policy." Mr. Johnson advanced the theory that the State Department's protestations of peace were at odds with the President's threat of "quarantining" aggressor nations. In his Chief's defense, Senator Pittman declared: "When the President of the U. S. first entered office he announced what I consider the fundamental foreign...
...Hiram Johnson is the Senate's Great Isolationist. William Borah is its Great Conversationalist. He had heard of Anthony Eden's pregnant preference to "say nothing" when asked in the House of Commons if Britain and the U. S. were acting in concert after the Ladybird and Panay bombings. He had been even more abashed when the late U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Robert W. Bingham, had assured a British audience: "If dictatorships are better prepared to begin war, democracies are better able to finish it. Despots have forced America & Britain to undertake rearmament, & having undertaken...
...world indoor record (on boards) for 60 yards has stood at 6.2 seconds for 15 years. Famed sprinters like Jesse Owens, Eddie Tolan, Ralph Metcalfe have tried but failed to break it. But last week astonished spectators saw Benjamin Washington Johnson of Columbia, a little Negro who is long on medals but short on publicity, register three lightning flashes: the first heat in 6.2 sec., the semi-final in 6.1, the final in 6 seconds flat. To little Ben Johnson went the Rodman Wanamaker Trophy for the outstanding performance of the meet (Millrose Games) and round-the-world acclaim...