Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oddly enough, chief opposition to this ultra-isolationist measure came from the Senate's two most famed isolationists, Borah of Idaho and Johnson of California, both veterans of the League fight of 1919. For those oldsters, isolation means that the U. S. shall not only mind its own business, but shall also stand up for its rights. To them, the Pittman proposal seemed a craven yielding up of the great right of freedom of the seas, for which the nation had stood through all its history. Furthermore, they declaimed, it would not bring peace, but war. Since only...
...wide and fast, Air Pilot Sam found not a bird. This time, however, he handled like a champion and the judges, after matching his two performances, gave him the title, Handler Farrior the $1,500 purse and a leg on the Robert Worth Bingham Trophy to Owner Lambert D. Johnson, president of Evansville, Ind.'s Mead, Johnson Co. (baby food...
Though Flagstad is the Metropolitan's prime drawing card, its German wing- with Rethberg, Lehmann, Melchior, Schorr, List-was the world's finest even before her arrival. When Edward Johnson became general manager, he knew better than to tamper with the wing that artistically and box-officially is his best. The Italian and French wings were in less happy state, and Johnson combed Europe last summer engaging fresh singers...
...audience called her before the curtain time after time. Later she sang Ponchielli's La Gioconda, Bellini's Norma, Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore. Though Cigna has a frail lower voice and occasionally forces notes, she sang these ornate roles with brilliance and spirit. Johnson wanted to extend her term so she could be Donna Anna in a revival of Mozart's Don Giovanni. La Scala, where she was scheduled to sing this month, would not release...
...Manager Johnson's second season has abounded in revivals and premieres. Wagner's Flying Dutchman was put on for the first time in five years, and Flagstad and Baritone Friedrich Schorr made it unforgettable. In a revival of Rimsky-Korsakov's Coq d'Or, Lily Pons danced as well as sang the role of the unearthly siren who lured fat, fantastic King Dodon to his doom. Coq d'Or was successful enough to be repeated four times. Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman was almost as popular in spite of over-ingenious mounting by Stage...