Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anti-Court sentiment is nearly equal. Several members of the 17 threaten to do so, but the arguments of the opposition furnish ready-made ammunition to the outs who want to get into places of the pro-Court Senators. At the last minute before the vote, Senator Hiram Johnson exclaimed...
...June in Chicago in the year 1920 saw three gentlemen struggling to become the Republican nominee for the Presidency. There were Frank O. Lowden and Leonard Wood locked in a deadly political embrace, and there was Hiram Johnson of California harrying the flanks of both with his delegations gathered through the primaries of states here and yon. On the outskirts to be sure were the friends of Senator Harding of Ohio, preparing a little coup...
...Hiram Johnson's delegations was Oregon, and one of the men who should have voted for him according to his reckoning was Judge Wallace McCamant, a delegate from that state. But McCamant did not. Not a single vote did he cast for Johnson...
...Judge served by a recess appointment until the Senate should approve his nomination?the Senate of which Hiram Johnson is a member. One of Senator Johnson's characteristics is that his memory is long and his forgiveness is short. The Senate Judiciary Committee reported favorably on Judge McCamant, but on the floor of the Senate Mr. Johnson was eloquent. The result was that the nomination was referred back to the Committee. And before the Committee the Judge last week appeared...
...questions directed at him by Senator Johnson were intended to show that he had misled the people of Oregon in 1920 when chosen to the Republican convention. At that time he announced...