Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closed his desk in Chicago's Bowen High School one day last March and made ready to go home, Principal William T. McCoy, whose work had only a few days before been commended by Chicago's Superintendent William H. Johnson, received a curt message from the superintendent ordering him to report next morning at an elementary school with a $700 reduction in salary. Not long after, Superintendent Johnson announced a new eligible list for principals. Of the 155 successful candidates on the examination, 128 had come from Loyola University, where Superintendent Johnson teaches. Of the 15 principals promptly...
...sober as an undergraduate, he was well liked at the University of Virginia. Starting out at the bottom in Hyatt Bearings Division of General Motors, he rose with meteoric rapidity through industrial and public relations to a vice-presidency. During the heyday of NRA he was one of Hugh Johnson's aides until called to Big Steel. Now prematurely white-haired, handsome Ed Stettinius is genial, excessively energetic, has the happy faculty of charming even those whom he defeats, enjoys society with his wife, three children...
...Thomas Frederick Woodley-Stackpole ($3.50). Cautious mud-removal job on "the most despicable, malevolent and morally deformed character who has ever risen to high power in America," clubfooted, sardonic, bachelor Thaddeus Stevens, Lincoln's powerful House whip, hard-bitten champion of the Reconstruction Act, the 14th Amendment, Andrew Johnson's impeachment...
...Howard Johnson starred for the Crimson in the line...
...Freshmen entered by Coach Mikkola today are: Captain Robert B. Nichols; Charles H. Oldfather; Joseph R. McLoughlin; David H. Mitchell; Lee A. Dimond; Charles D. Howell; Malcolm D. Campbell, Jr.; Robert N. Elwell; De Coursey Fales, Jr.; and Johnson Parker. Nichols and Oldfather have been outstanding to date...