Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...congratulate you and hope you will keep up the good work," said Mr. Coolidge to Walter Johnson, pitcher, handing from the Presidential box at the Washington baseball field a diploma certifying that the sport writers of the eight American League cities had chosen Johnson as the most valuable player in the American League last season...
Marietta College (Marietta .Ohio) was visited by Vice President Charles G. Dawes, '84, and by Byron Bancroft Johnson, President of the American Baseball League. Crowds cheered as Mr. Johnson received an honorary A.B. degree, allegedly so flustering the proud recipient that he had difficulty in readjusting the unfamiliar academic cap as he retreated to his chair...
...distinguished electors whose privilege it is, every five years, to pass (with a three fifths vote) on candidates for the U. S. Hall of Famef (at New York University), Director Robert Underwood Johnson last week sent ballots. There were 27 names, in nomination, of whom the electors were to choose 12. The names...
...Johnson Expedition. Besides the Amundsen rescue parties, the schooner Zodiac, 130-foot yacht of Johnson & Johnson (Robert W. and J. Steward), manufacturers of surgical supplies at New Brunswick, N. J., was soon to nose into the north with both Johnson brothers aboard. Their destination was to be Newfoundland, where they would search the ice-bitten shores for traces of the 40-ft. sloop Leif Ericsson which sailed out of Reykjavik, Iceland, last August under an amateut Norwegian skipper with a party of artists to "follow the trail of the Vikings" to Nova Scotia. Last winter, the U. S. cruiser Trenton...
...front, Backbone close behind him. The obliging gentlemen gasped. First furlong. Backbone, already dizzy, had slipped back. The mile. Prince de Bourbon was lengths in front. The obliging gentlemen loosed their striped collars with trembling forefingers. But ho!-American Flag, in second place, was behaving queerly. Jockey Johnson, on his back, did not lift his hands, raise his whip. But American Flag bounded past Prince de Bourbon as if the latter were shod with billets. To his owner, Samuel D. Riddle, went the stakes, and a great silver basket donated by the late Major August Belmont. The obliging gentlemen thoughtfully...