Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...house where "Roosevelt at 43 could not be taken seriously." It was a salon such as Dr. Johnson and his Literary Club would have never thought possible on the barbarous shores of the New World...
...Commerce Hoover got out; conferred hastily with the President on farm relief; offered plans (which were approved) for extensive Governmental promotion of civil aeronautics under the recent air legislation; whizzed down the driveway, took a train to California, presumably to aid his friend Senator Shortridge, whose renomination Senator Hiram Johnson is opposing...
Recently music lovers and joyous undergraduates alike, were pleased at the news that Arthur Honegger, famed modern French composer, is constructing an opera about the theme of a U. S. football match. He has already done a "symphonic movement" representing a locomotive, "Pacific 231." Last week Herbert M. Johnson, manager of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, landed from Italy in Manhattan, announced that Mary Garden "is tremendously enthusiastic over the potentialities of still another new opera Judith which is to be her piece de resistance in the coming season,"- the Judith of Arthur Honegger...
...insurgent Republican and thrice elected him governor. In 1908 when the "Iowa idea" for flexible tariff legislation was rampant, Albert B. Cummins strode into the U. S. Senate along with many another radical. This Senator from Iowa was no radical at heart, no Smith Wildman Brookhart, no Magnus ("Magnavox") Johnson. He soon was known for what he was-efficient, profoundly informed, hard-working legislator, Chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, co-author of Esch-Cummins Transportation Act, later Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. This year he has been conspicuous as staunch backer of the Coolidge Administration on every issue...
Local circulation of names varies. In New York Cohen is second to Smith, Schwartz fifth. In Chicago Johnson is ahead of Smith and Anderson third. Boston's first five are Smith, Sullivan, Brown, Johnson, Murphy. Meyer is third in Cincinnati...