Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great Endicott-Johnson shoe factories near Binghamton, N. Y., many an employe of late has glowered over his work, has grumbled in locker rooms. About a fourth of the employes felt that they were not getting sufficient bonus. Too little of the company's profits were going to the workers. The other three-fourths, contented, mocked at the grumblers...
Irked, irate, President George P. Johnson last week gave the disaffected employes a thoroughgoing reprimand: "The profit sharing is not necessarily a permanent plan. . . . To those that are dissatisfied with the results of last year's business I recommend a prompt resignation. . . . I wish such would quit. I am sincere in this wish. . . ." The vigor as much as the common sense of the words gave the grumblers a change of heart. Practically all went back to their work cheerfully...
Frank Shields of Columbia Grammer School, New York City, defeated Henry Johnson of New Preparatory School, Cambridge, by 6-4, 8-6, 3-6, 7-5 in the finals of the thirty-sixth annual Harvard Interscholastic tennis tournament at Divinity Field yesterday. The match was hard-fought from start to finsh, Johnson led in the last get by 5-3, when Shields rallied to take four straight games for the match...
Shields, who is the national boys' champion, won the Pennsylvania Interscholastic tourney last week, while Johnson carried off the crown in the Yale Interscholastics...
Play in the tournament opened last Monday on Jarvis Field, and continued on these courts until yesterday, when the semi-final matches were moved to the Divinity courts. In the semi-finals Shields defeated W. Barry Wood of Milton, 6-0, 6-2, while Johnson overcame Walter Thomas of Andover...