Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Birger, wrapped in a horse-blanket and riddled with bullets. The sheriff was bothered, because at dawn that same morning he had been called out to have a look at one William B. McQuay who lay in his automobile three miles north of Herrin on the road to Johnson City. Sixteen steel-jacketed machine-gun bullets had passed variously through McQuay's body...
Later, in a hospital bed lay Michael Bremant, member of University of Pennsylvania wrestling team, with deep cuts in his legs, hands, back, face. In an adjoining room was his roommate, Francis E. Denniston, with his hands cut up. In jail was Anna Johnson, knife-wielding Negress. In the House of Detention were three black girls...
Senator Samuel M. Shortridge of California-staunch Coolidge-ite, who has incurred the wrath of Senator Hiram W. Johnson, is opposed by John B. Elliott, McAdooian Democrat...
George F. Johnson, president, Endicott-Johnson Corp., reputedly the largest shoemakers in the world: "My company employs 17,000 men, many of whom buy goods on the installment plan. I disapprove of this practice, for, as I said last week, 'The only profit out of installment buying goes to the men who make the sales, and sometimes to the banks who handle the papers, but never to the poor devil who owes and must...
Lawyer, provincial mayor, globetrotter, potent government official, Brillat-Savarin was yet first and foremost the Boswell to his own Johnson. While his social and convivial self toasted with discreet enjoyment the good things of the world, his meditative, whimsical alter ego was at work upon the essays here collected. Since Brillat- Savarin was rich, he had no need to print during his lifetime. He wrote at leisure, as a gourmand should, and deigned to publish in his old age a book constantly rewritten, mellowed and refined throughout his lifetime...