Word: mcmahon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Owen McMahon Johnson, novelist (The Tennessee Shad, The Varmint, Stover at Yale, Children of Divorce), announced last week (apropos his latest novel, Sacrifice): "Second marriages are happier than first marriages. The new form of divorce-I call it 'amicable divorce'-is on a friendlier basis and much easier on the children...
Sirs: Re: your issue of July 22, p. 11, col. 1. Let TIME in the interest of fair print, publish what Mr. McMahon wired Governor Richards and which fairly invoked the reply received...
President Thomas F. McMahon of the United Textile Workers of America wired Governor Richards: _ "National executive board United Textile Workers of America in session here today instructs me to say to you that this organization will hold Governor of State as chief police officer personally responsible for safety of our representatives John Peel and Vernon Allen while in your state. According to telegrams reaching us from Representative Peel today his life was threatened by thugs in the employ of textile corporations in Ware Shoals and the local police authorities in that place instead of affording Peel proper protection...
...leader in the Fifth District. He was athletic (hurdles, leaping). He was affable and discreet. He early learned that the foundation of popularity in a crowded community is doing little kindnesses for many people. When he challenged the authority of the Fifth District's aging Boss McMahon, he was so strong that the old man retired before sure defeat. Boss Curry did not crow. He smiled quietly instead, did more little favors, "played the game...
...Pope promoted one of his most able U. S. lieutenants. This was the Right Rev. Thomas Joseph Walsh, formerly bishop of Trenton, N. J., whom Pope Pius elevated to the Bishopric of Newark. At the same time the Pope appointed the Rev. John J. McMahon of Buffalo to fill the vacated seat of Trenton...