Word: hiram
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward Young Clarke, former Imperial Wizard Pro Tern of the Ku Klux Klan, appeared to testify in regard to the contested election of Senator Earle B. Mayfield of Texas. He testified that he had agreed with Dr. Hiram W. Evans, also of the K. K. K., that the Klan would do everything in its power to elect Mayfield and that Evans had said money must be no consideration...
Republicans. California did not need to do it. Mr. Coolidge would have been nominated anyhow. But nevertheless, Califonians chose for Convention delegates a set of Coolidge nien in preference to a delegation for Hiram W. Johnson, native son. The vote was in about a 6-5 proportion. On the same day, Indiana showed its preference for Coolidge over Johnson by a 6-1 ratio. The Republican Utah State Convention gave Coolidge its eleven delegates. Nevada pledged nine delegates. A few more states were yet to be heard from, but as far as the Republicans were concerned, the pre-Convention struggle...
...increasing to 40% at $500,000; normal tax 2% up to $4,000, 4% from $4,000 to $8,000, 6% above $8,000). The vote on the Simmons plan was 43-40 for the surtaxes and 44-37 on the normal taxes. The Republican insurgents (including Hiram W. Johnson) voted with the Democrats, whereas three Democrats, Bayard (paired), Bruce, Edwards, voted against their colleagues...
With "hundreds of vacant chairs meeting his gaze," Senator Hiram Warren Johnson caused his voice to reverberate through the cavernous recesses of a Newark, N. J., auditorium. "Secretary Mellon is the real head of the Government!" he roared. "He should be nominated for the Presidency, and not merely someone to represent him. You may fire a Denby; you may attack a Daugherty; but when you attack a Mellon you touch the supersensitive nerve of finance and big business and the whole Government trembles...
Many times has the Presidential boom of Hiram W. Johnson been wrecked in the prevision of political correspondents. But never had it come so close to annihilation as it did before a Michigan Central freight train...