Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monday, June 4 I purchased a copy of TIME and was delighted to find under the section devoted to Religion a story about the appearance on the platform of Kansas City, of Jack Johnson, former heavyweight champion of the world, colored and convicted violator of the Mann Act. I was delighted because I had been scoffed at by Methodists for saying that I had seen an item concerned with the same speaker in a local daily. Here at last, I felt, was proof of the actuality, for I and others, place much faith in the verity of TIME...
...Newsstand Buyer Whitbeck continue to have faith in TIME. Jack Johnson was invited by the Rev. Clarence True Wilson, Secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance & Morals, to address a conference of that body meeting in Convention Hall, Kansas City, at the time of the Methodist General Conference. Let Newsstand Buyer Whitbeck continue also to rely upon the reiterations of his Bishop; Jack Johnson did not officially address the General Conference...
Married. William Eugene Johnson, 66, famed blind-in-one-eye anti-saloon rallier; to Mary Bessie Stanley, widow of a deputy-rallier; in Syracuse. Mr. Johnson's first wife was Lillie M. Trevitt, who was William Jennings Bryan's stenographer...
Harriet M. Johnson's almost unique 'Children in the Nursery School" is one of the latest analyzations of the youthful educational problem. It is published by The John Day Company and is a clear and practical presentation of the workings of an experimental school. The Nursery School the author describes was organized in 1919 by The Bureau of Educational Experiments. In view of the new realization of the first three years of childhood and the attendant establishment of nursery schools throughout America, the problem dealt with will have a wide interest in educational circles...
...discussing the environment offered by the nursery school, Miss Johnson insiders the child's activities and materials, his relation to other children and to adults, and his introduction to language and rhythm. She explains now the nursery goes about its attempt to scale civilization down to the child level in its behavior demands and to open up wider opportunities for alive exploration than an adult world call afford...