Word: hiram
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commerce Hoover got out; conferred hastily with the President on farm relief; offered plans (which were approved) for extensive Governmental promotion of civil aeronautics under the recent air legislation; whizzed down the driveway, took a train to California, presumably to aid his friend Senator Shortridge, whose renomination Senator Hiram Johnson is opposing...
Sirs: Possibly, Grandson Ulysses (TIME, Aug. 9, POLITICAL NOTES, p. 10) may be in error in believing that the General was christened Hiram Ulysses. I have in my possession two signatures- one written just after the unwilling cadet had been received at West Point-"U. H. Grant, Georgetown, Ohio"; the other, not long after graduation-"U. H. Grant, 4' Inf." Evidently, Grandson has the names reversed. CHARLES PLATT...
Last week General Grant's grandson, Major Ulysses S. Grant, disclosed that his famed grandfather had been christened Hiram Ulysses Grant. Said he: "History's error was caused by confusion on the part of the Congressman who recommended Hiram Ulysses Grant for West Point. The Representative mixed his name with that of his brother, Simpson Grant, and the erroneous name became fixed...
Thereupon, Senator Hiram Johnson, California sage, epigrammaticaily remarked: "It's the old army game...
...Although Hiram Johnson, Senator from California, is well disposed toward the White House, he has not displayed cordiality toward any of its recent occupants. Of late the President has been inviting Senators to share his griddle cakes at breakfast. Last week Senator Johnson was one of those so honored. It is customary for the President to go in to breakfast side by side with the senior Senator present. An aide indicated Senator Johnson to the President. The President offered his arm. And together they walked. The others went smiling after...