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Hiram W. Johnson. So the Senator from California, sojourning temporarily in Chicago, the home of his chief backer, Albert D. Lasker, invited reporters to call on him at his room in the Drake Hotel at 5 o'clock of an afternoon. When they came he served them each with a mimeographed statement. In it was a summary of what the Senator believes to be wrong with the country and how he would right it, to which was appended the words: " Upon these as fundamentals . . . I will make my appeal. In every state the contest will be waged...
About the time of Mr. Johnson's strictures on Mr. Hughes' policy, Ralph Beaver Strassburger of Pennsylvania announced that Mr. Johnson would probably soon announce his candidacy, and intimated that, after all, Ralph Beaver Strassburger was a bigger and better financial backer of the Senator than Albert D. Lasker of Chicago...
Last week Mr. Strassburger appeared in Washington. In his pocket was a letter full of " blistering words." As between Strassburger and Lasker, it seems the Californian prefers the latter. So Mr. Strassburger went to call on Calvin Coolidge at the White" House...
Senator Joseph Medill McCormick of Illinois was the first to voice his objections. Senator Hiram Johnson followed. Then Mr. McCormick came to the attack a second time. It is significant that Mr. McCormick's remarks followed his attendance at a breakfast given by Albert D. Lasker, former Chairman of the Shipping Board, and (before the nomination of Warren G. Harding in 1920), an ardent supporter of Hiram Johnson for the Presidency...
...Lasker, ex-Chairman of the U. S. Shipping Corporation: " In recording the fact that I attended a World's Series baseball game, The New York Times ignorantly referred to me as ' champion at chess.' The Times reporter doubtless confused me with Emanuel Lasker, of Germany, former world's chess champion, or with Edward Lasker, German-Polish Jew, now of Chicago, Master Chessman...