Word: hiram
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This man who may remind you of a pompous schoolmaster is Hiram Johnson. He used to be a rip-roaring Progressive Republican. He still votes with them, but he seems to be an extinct volcano. The old gentleman there, with a kindly face-no, not that one; he is Frederick Gillett, who used to be Speaker of the House and has now retired to the dignified bosom of the Senate as a reward for his long and faithful labor in the Republican cause. The other one farther back is Senator Cummins, who used to be a Progressive Republican...
...interest of accuracy, you may as well correct the last paragraph on p. 32 of Vol. VII, No. 6, and have it read "father" instead of "brother," which was the correct relationship of Grove L. Johnson to Hiram W. Johnson...
...President announced simply and tersely that he would not withdraw from the Senate the nomination of Judge Wallace McCamant?the man who nominated him in 1920. Judge McCamant, who has the enmity of Senator Hiram Warren Johnson (TIME, Feb. 8, POLITICAL NOTES), allowed himself to be forced into saying that Theodore Roosevelt "was not a good American," and the Judiciary Committee of the Senate refused to recommend him for office...
Georgia. Atlanta, the onetime Imperial City of the Klan, is nearly deserted so far as the Klan is concerned. The leadership of the Klan was lost when the Simmons and Clarke dynasty was overthrown by the Texan dynasty of Hiram Wesley Evans. The palace is deserted or nearly so, and the home it gave to Simmons was sold when he went forth to found the Knights of the Flaming Sword. Clarke has founded the anti-evolution society?the Supreme Kingdom (TIME, Feb. 1, EDUCATION). No more are great national meetings held in Atlanta. It still is powerful in small cities...
Long acquainted with George Hiram and rather fond of him for his past courtesies, the Cunard Line last week announced a new kind of trip abroad, for him alone. Perhaps, for steamship companies are very understanding, a special trip for Mrs. G. H. will be thought up later. But for the present, her husband is invited to go to Scotland, stay at the best hotels, play any that he chooses of 48 golf courses (riding to and from the links by motor) and return in five weeks, all for a flat sum (unstated in the advertisement). The only extra expenditures...