Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such were the ominous words of Hugh Johnson last week. They reflected the worry of many a politician in Washington: the expectation that revenues for fiscal 1937 would fall $300,000,000 to $500,000,000 below estimates, the fact that Secretary Morgenthau found it necessary to resume borrowing, beginning with the sale of $50,000,000 worth of short-term bills this week. In the Senate, Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson spoke out almost as pessimistically as Hugh Johnson...
Additional help to the pro-Leftists came from the pious Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, the white-thatched Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, who reached Valencia last week after a personal tour of the Basque provinces and other Leftist territory in Spain...
Died. Brigadier General Jay Johnson Morrow, 67, U. S. A. retired, onetime (1921-24) Governor of the Canal Zone, Wartime chief engineer of the First Army, uncle of Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh; of cerebral hemorrhage, in his sleep; in Englewood, N. J., where his famed younger brother Dwight died the same way six years ago. General Morrow's ashes will be scattered over the Canal Zone's Chagres River...
...there still have been none because Canada stubbornly insisted that Montreal must be the western terminus of the projected route. Last week this final obstacle to transatlantic service was removed when Colonel John Monroe Johnson, Assistant U. S. Secretary of Commerce, announced in Washington that Canada had finally knuckled under and that the U. S., Great Britain and Canada had ironed out their difficulties...
According to Colonel Johnson, the Post Office will soon invite bids for four transatlantic mail flights a week. Route in summer will be from Ireland across the Atlantic to the big new airport near Botwood, Newfoundland (TIME, March 1), where it will split into two legs, one going straight down the coast to New York with a stop at Shediac, N. B., the other to Montreal and then down the Hudson Valley to New York. In winter the planes will fly via the Azores and Bermuda...