Word: john
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Christ had his Judas, Washington his Benedict Arnold and Roosevelt his John Garner...
...Sharply at 8:45 o'clock each workday morning the officers of the world's largest hat factory sit down at a worn, carved oak round table, go over the morning mail addressed "John B. Stetson Co., Philadelphia, Pa.", and discuss company matters. Since last June when Stetson's third president, George V. MacKinnon died, the president's chair has been vacant. This week it was occupied. Fourth head of the 74-year-old Stetson business was robust, grey-haired, 43-year-old George L. Russell Jr., former vice president and treasurer. After a miserable...
...churchmen-Bishop John Mark Gannon of Erie, Pa., Bishop James A. Griffin of Springfield, Ill., Monsignor Michael J. Ready of Washington-had gone to Mexico to confer on a joint enterprise, a seminary founded two years ago at Las Vegas, N. M. to furnish priests to the Mexican Church. For seminaries, as well as cassocks, are illegal in practice in Mexico. The U. S. prelates found the seminary with its 66 students, going well enough. For the rest, they visited Mexico City's landmarks, were banqueted-in mufti-by a Methodist who has not always been popular with Catholic...
London. Early this year beef-eating Yorkshireman John Boynton Priestley, author of best-selling novels (The Good Companions, Angel Pavement), several U. S. stage flops, one hit (Dangerous Corner), stood up to the almighty British Broadcasting Corp., calling it monopolistic and its programs a bore. Fortnight ago BBC commissioned a novel for serial broadcasting, 20 minutes every Sunday. Commissioned novelist: J. B. Priestley. The radio novel, Let the People Sing, was reported to be another cross-sectioning of British life like The Good Companions...
...village in the Bakony Forest, Hungary, a peasant named John Koevecs was found apparently lifeless. But his sons were leary of burying John Koevecs: twice before he had been thought dead, had revived indignantly at the funeral. They decided to wait three days to make sure. At the last minute John Koevecs again opened his eyes, sat up, stopped the show...