Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fortnight ago, Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes watched with bright red face while Gridiron Club members portrayed him as Donald Duck, the frenzied squawker. Last week, "Honest Harold"* engaged General Hugh Johnson in debate in Newark, said: "We are both contesting for the post of Donald Duck of Public Affairs...
Said General Johnson of Mr. Roosevelt: "A third term . . . a fourth and a fifth term . . . a 15th term, and finally elect Jimmy Roosevelt and then start all over again...
...Volatile Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Montana Democrat, was advanced by stolid Senator Edwin Johnson, Colorado Democrat, as a "liberal candidate" who might make it unnecessary "for the President to run against his will...
...Hellzapoppin (produced by Olsen & Johnson). When Hellzapoppin opened last season the critics muttered a curt No, but the public howled an emphatic Yes, has been howling Yes, Yes, a Thousand Times Yes ever since. When the new Hellzapoppin opened last week, the critics acknowledged themselves licked. They knew they might just as well try to reason with an earthquake or talk back to a cannon...
...Other inmates: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, Honus Wagner, Walter Johnson, Napoleon Lajoie, Tris Speaker, Cy Young, Grover C. Alexander, Connie Mack, Ban Johnson, John J. McGraw, Morgan Bulk.eley, George Wright, Alexander Cartwright, Henry Chadwick, Cap Anson, A. G. Spalding, Charles Radbourne, Arthur Cummings, Charles Comiskey, Buck Ewing, Eddie Collins, Wee Willie Keeler, George Sisler...