Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Magnus Johnson, junior U. S. Senator from Minnesota: "Ignoring the Constitution of the U. S., which declares that no foreign-born citizen shall become President, I declared in a speech at Washington that I was 'seriously thinking of running for the Presidency.' It was later pointed out that I was born in Sweden of Swedish parents...
Republican Presidents Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Arthur, McKinley, Taft, Harding, Coolidge, were mixed up in a paragraph by Franklin D. Roosevelt and despatched to Manhattan to be read at the annual Jefferson Day dinner of the National Democratic Club. Wrote Mr. Roosevelt...
...renew your attention to an interesting historical fact which deserves consideration by the American people? During the period since the Civil War the administration of President Johnson was marked by impeachment proceedings against the President himself; the administration of President Grant was marred by grave scandals reaching into the Cabinet itself; the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes and Chester A. Arthur were filled with such serious patronage scandals that civil service reform was forced through by an indignant country; the administration of President McKinley saw the graft and rottenness of the War Department and other bureaus during and following...
COMMITTEE ON MANUFACTURES TO INVESTIGATE SALE OF FUR SEAL SKINS BY GOVERNMENT-Senators La Follette (Chairman), McNary, McKinley, Weller, Reed (Pa.), Brookhart, Smith (S. C.), Reed (Mo.), Harris, Edwards, Wheeler, Johnson (Minn...
These include Debussy's magnum opus, Pelleas et Mélisande, in which Edward Johnson and Lucrezia Bori will probably be the principals. For Jeritza, there is also a German novelty, Jenufa, by Leos Janacek, Czecho-Slovakia. This opera, first heard in Prague in 1916, has since been performed in Vienna and Berlin...