Word: hiram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presided (1920) over the last meeting "of the remnants of the Progressive rear guard," worked as Illinois campaign manager for Hiram Johnson as Republican nominee for President ("he would have made a great President") and shuddered when Coolidge won. When Hoover came on the scene ("to me Hoover has always been - well, Hoover") Ickes voted for Al Smith...
Such was the news from California last week. Distillers Corp.-Seagrams had just bought the Mt. Tivy Winery in Fresno County, was eying three others to boot; agents of Hiram Walker and Fleischmann Distilling were reported hotfooting through the California wine belt (which produces 90% of all U.S. wine) for good properties; the whole industry was abuzz with big deals to come...
Common Sense was founded ten years ago this month by two young Yale intellectuals who had the idea that the U.S. needed a magazine of native (i.e., non-Stalinist, non-Trotskyist) radicalism. Founder Alfred Bingham, one of the seven versatile sons of Connecticut's Old Guard Republican Senator Hiram, had at the age of 27 already traveled around Europe and taught school in Russia. Founder Selden Rodman, was, at 23, a poet who detested the word pinko and who, at Yale, edited a radical undergraduate magazine...
Rumbled California's Hiram Johnson: "The power of the Senate is very great. No wonder that certain persons want to see its power curtailed. . . . They wish it because they have some ulterior motive in preventing the exercise of the treaty-making power in the manner required by the Constitution." Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark said a friend told him it was common talk in the State Department that there was no intention of submitting a peace treaty to Congress at the end of the war but that arrangements would be concluded by executive agreements. Asserted Ohio...
Montana's Burton Wheeler sniffed an Army dictatorship; California's Hiram Johnson was disturbed about the "warlike proclivities" of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson; North Dakota's Gerald P. Nye shouted that Japan, after five years of war, had not yet taken young men out of schools for its Army...