Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, a finesse which might have opened a tiny entering wedge in the Johnson Act was tried when the French New Dealers asked the Washington New Dealers last week if a fiscal agent such...
...Washington correspondents: "So far as putting ten $100 bills in an envelope and sending the money to France for investment is concerned, there is no way to stop that." As $1,000 is 21,000 francs this was big news to Blum and even to Republican Senator Hiram W. Johnson, author of the Act. "The law is perfectly plain!" snapped the Senator. "It is unspeakable that any American or any official of the Government should seek to evade...
...interest among the numerous notes which complete the Review is an article on The Constitutionality of the Federal Relief Measures, discussing the Resettlement Administration. Under the caption of Legislation is a treatment of the recent Johnson Act which denies Federal District Courts control of State Public Utilities Commissions and at the same time returns the jurisdiction to the State courts...
Thanks to the genial weather and almost complete lack of snow, the Maintenance Department has saved over $11,000 this winter, Rogers B. Johnson '17, Superintendent of the Department, admitted yesterday. Whereas the University grounds received $8,000 worth of brushing, snow-shoveling, plowing, and sanding last winter, only $650 has been necessary this winter...
...diminutive snow-removal crew have been expended mainly in sanding icy walks this year, or clearing drains of slush. No icicles have broken or punctured roofs; no exposed washbowl plumbing in Hollis and Stoughton has frozen up. This accounts for a further saving of $4000. According to Johnson, zero temperature is necessary to freeze the more ancient Yard plumbing...