Word: hiram
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HIRAM WILSON SHERIDAN...
When his first senate term expired, Billy quit. His ambition was pointing to Washington, where California's aging Senator Hiram Johnson was living his last years...
...them know him. He made news on being elected chairman of the Republican National Committee's executive committee, posed for pictures with every leading G.O.P. candidate who came through town, including Republican Leaders Tom Dewey and Wendell Willkie. He was, in fact, carefully preparing for the day when Hiram Johnson's Senate place would become vacant...
...public information and military government officer. It was in the summer of 1945 when Major William Knowland, drinking coffee in an Army cafeteria in Paris, picked up a copy of Stars and Stripes and read that he had been appointed by Governor Earl Warren to succeed the late Hiram Johnson in the U.S. Senate...
...after the "Great Disappointment," a Millerite named Hiram Edson of western New York was seized by a conviction that explained the whole sad mistake. What was meant by Daniel 8:14, he decided, was Christ's entrance into the second chamber of his sanctuary (in 1843-44) to examine the lives of all mortals living and dead, and to dispense the atonement he had paid for with his blood. This "investigative judgment," said Edson, was going on now; when it was completed, the great day of the Second Coming would dawn...