Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Africa's Kenya Colony jungle Mrs. Osa Johnson, widow of Explorer Martin Johnson, leading a safari to make moving pictures, rescued her friends Canadian Goldminer Phillip Whitmarsh and his wife. Flying to join the Johnson party, they had crashed 30 miles from Nairobi, spent four days without food. In the London Sunday Chronicle, James Allan Mollison, stubby four-time trans-Atlantic flyer and, in 1932, first person to fly solo across the North Atlantic east to west, serialized his autobiography. Week before publication was to start he blurbed: "The world knows me as a hero...
...spectators in Comiskey Park his hands knocked out James J. Braddock in the eighth round of their bout for the heavyweight championship of the world. Major results of Louis' handiwork were two: it made him the first colored man to hold the championship since crafty Jack Johnson allowed himself to be knocked out by Jess Willard in 1915, and it started a new regime in pugilistic finance, by which shrewd, bald-headed Michael Jacobs succeeded Madison Square Garden Corp. as the industry's No. 1 promoter...
Finder was Judge William Johnson Graham of the U. S. Court of Customs & Patent Appeals, an experienced amateur archeologist who was probing the remains of the old Algonquin village of Patowoameke, from which the Potomac derives its name. When the skull fragments of the old Indian; perhaps a contemporary of John Smith and Pocahontas, were fitted together. Judge Graham gasped in astonishment: "Why, it's as big as a watermelon!" This was only mild hyperbole. The unknown Algonquin's cranial capacity was measured...
...patent infringements. In 1927 Guthard formed Activated Sludge, Inc. and it joined in the U. S. lawsuits. Milwaukee was sued in 1928 and Activated Sludge won its first decision in 1933 against that city when its patents were held valid. President of Activated Sludge, Inc., is one Carl W. Johnson. Large in the sludge pie is the finger of wealthy Chicago Patent Lawyer Lynn A. Williams who was recently the successful defendant of a damage suit brought by a beach-loving fellow lawyer (TIME. June 21). Besides being a Sludge stockholder. Attorney Williams' firm of Williams, Bradbury, McCaleb & Hinkle...
...Michilimackinac, then start west on a three-year expedition to the Pacific. The Northwest Passage he hoped to find was not the undiscovered outlet of Hudson Bay but an overland route. He needed money and no money was forthcoming from his English sponsors. His American superiors, Sir William Johnson and General Gage, feared and disliked Rogers, did everything they could to hamstring him. While Langdon Towne and a small party set off to find the Northwest Passage for him, Rogers had to stay fuming in Michilimackinac. When the expedition came to grief, barely managed to get back safely, Langdon found...