Word: hiram
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Michigan) voted against confirmation, both testifying high personal regard for Mr. Warren, but saying they could not vote for him. (Mr. Warren is not popular with the Republican organization in his native Michigan.) Senator after Senator voted. The Progressive and Insurgent Republicans, without exception, voted against confirmation. So did Hiram Johnson, administration opponent. So did all the Democrats except one, Lee S. Overman of North Carolina, who expressed the opinion that the President should be given the opportunity of choosing his own official family. The vote was obviously close. Republican leaders became uneasy...
...fortunes of the day, a dent had been stove in his headgear. Frank B. Kellogg was not with the Cabinet. He stood at one side with Senators Butler and Watson. At one side also were Will Hays, Colonel Harvey and Frank H. Hitchcock, who last summer managed Senator Hiram Johnson's abortive attempt to take the Republican nomination. Silk hats were everywhere in the stand, even Dick Jervis, the tall, the handsome head of the White House Secret Service men, was wearing one. There were a few exceptions. Senator Pat Harrison, for example, wore a broad brimmed black felt...
...Benjamin Eisner, Chairman, Miss Anna Griel; L. R. Bamberger, Miss Suzanne Schoenberger; Hiram Gans, Miss Ethelyn Holzman; Robert Markson, Miss Marie Hays; Nelson Miller, Miss Carol Miller; N. P. Lyons, Miss Anita Lyons; L. S. Pilcher, Miss Eleanor Bogart; E. R. Stabler, Miss Dorothy Brooks; J. J. Corn, Miss Dorothy Lathrop; C. A. Hicks, Miss Mildred Whinery; J. L. Brown, Miss Louise Hanson; W. W. Flexner, Miss Marjorie Morse...
When Prince Ahab heard it suggested that he give his daughter to a penniless prophet, he roared with mirth and indignation. Judith wept for three days. At the end of this time, one Hiram, a merchant of Tyre, came to enchant her heart with tales of cities by the shores of seas. "Oh, how I should like to be a merchant," she cried. Jonah could not get work; the place for a successful prophet, people said, was in the desert. At last he went to Judith for comfort. When he spoke of their love, she twisted her shawl. . . . "I hardly...
...acceptance. The Democrats without exception voted for rejection. So also Farmer-Laborite Shipstead. The Republicans voted for acceptance with these exceptions: Insurgents Brookhart and Frazier (LaFollette and (Ladd being absent) ; semi-insurgents Norris and Norbeck who, as members of the committee, signed the majority report; Obstructionist Hiram Johnson; the Independents Couzens and Borah...