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...there called at the White House: 1) Senator Magnus Johnson of Minnesota, to discuss farm matters; 2) Robert Underwood Johnson, former Ambassador to Italy, on a personal matter; 3) Dr. I. Fred Johnson, prominent member of the Lee Highway Association, with his associates; 4) James Weldon Johnson, Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, with a petition for the release of 54 Negroes of the 24th Infantry in Leavenworth Penitentiary for the Houston Riot of 1917; 5) Henry Lincoln Johnson, Republican National Committeeman from Georgia. Even the President was reported to have found this a case...
...Magnus Johnson, junior U. S. Senator from Minnesota: "I invaded the Senate press gallery and made a fiery verbal attack on the correspondent of a Minnesota newspaper in whose columns I claimed to have been misrepresented. Despatches reported that I waved my fists about, used 'strong epithets,' caused my voice to resound through the corridors. Fearing we would exchange blows, other correspondents jumped between us. There were cries of 'Throw him out!' (meaning me). The correspondent stuck to his guns. Finally I walked outside with the Superintendent of the press gallery, at his request...
Amid all the gloomy smoke and fire which the Teapot Dome Scandal has spread over the national Congress, it must be refreshing to have there the naivete of a Magnus Johnson. Although the reports of his milking contests have of late simmered into quietude, the Senator from Minnesota has by no means yet emptied his bag of tricks. The latest is an excursion to the Senate press gallery to challenge a home-state newspaper correspondant to a verbal duel. If all Minnesota citizens are as frank and as earnest as their radical senator, the roof of the Capital Building would...
...side by side with LaFollette and Borah in the insurgent movement of yesteryear, was defeated by the votes of his former comrades. Mr. LaFollette swung his radical group into the Democratic column, carrying with him three other Republicans, Brookhart, Ladd and Frazier, and the two Farmer-Laborites, Shipstead and Magnus Johnson. Bruce of Maryland, lone Democrat, clung to Cummins to the last. The final vote was : Smith, 39; Cummins, 29; Couzens, 6 (38 necessary to elect). There were 22 members absent, nearly all of whom were paired...
...Magnus Johnson, junior Senator from Minnesota: "At a banquet in Philadelphia, I addressed 700 prominent bankers. Said I: 'The Mellon tax plan will never pass because it favors the wealthy.' At this the bankers stood up, hissed me for three minutes. I halted my speech until the hisses subsided, then roared out a second time that the plan would not pass. The bankers retaliated with cries of 'Bring on the other speakers,' 'Sit down' and other remarks, but I stood with arm upraised and roared out the conclusion of my speech. When I sat down there came a ripple...