Word: johnstons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, both "seeded" in the draw. Lucien E. Williams, droll Chicagoan, overthrew Fritz Mercur of Philadelphia, Longwood Bowl winner; Willard Crocker, Canadian Davis Cup captain; Harvey Snodgrass, of California, No. 9 in national ranking. Howard Kinsey took the finals from his fellow Californian, jaunty, courageous, diminutive William M. Johnston, No. 2 in national ranking, onetime National and World's Champion. (Johnston was not "through." He had yielded up his tonsils five weeks before...
...hundred M.P.'s, male, signed a petition to Premier MacDonald asking that pictures of living subjects of His Majesty should not be hung in the Houses of Parliament without Parliament's consent. In the Chamber of the House, the joft murmurs grew to audible agitation. Thomas Johnston, Laborite, asked by whose authority the picture had been hung. The Right Hon. F. W. Jowett, First Commissioner of Works, answered that permission to hang the picture was given by his Conservative predecessor, Sir John Baird. He assured the House that its present position could not be regarded as permanent...
...organized itself into a Campaign committee, Chairman of which is Representative John M. Nelson, nominal Republican of Wisconsin, and Vice Chairman of which is Robert M. LaFollette Jr. Other members of the Committee are: Senator Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota, "NonPartisan" Republican; Morris Hillquit, Manhattan Socialist; William H. Johnston of Washington, President of the International Association of Machinists and Chairman of the Conference which endorsed Mr. LaFollette; Basil M. Manly of Washington, Director of the "People's Legislative Service"; D. B. Robertson of Cleveland, President of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Firemen and Enginemen; Mrs. Elizabeth Glendower Evans...
...near Chicago, a company of overheated golfers drove, brassied, mashied their many balls. The mi- rage that led them on was the Western Amateur title. They challenged one another's right to continue the quest and in the end Albert Seckel of Chicago and Harrison R. ("Jim-mie") Johnston of St. Paul played on alone...
...31st tee, Seckel led 4 up. Goldy-haired Johnston then squinted more keenly at the holes, won five in a row with deadly accuracy. Dormy-down, Seckel planned his 45-foot putt in the 36th hole for a birdie 3. Scornful of worm casts and slippery undulations, Johnston quashed that feat with a 35-footer to the back of the cup. For him the mirage had materialized...