Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squeeze of 1800, all changes in the Court's size up to the end of the Civil War were honestly motivated by the growth of Court business. But in 1866 a Congress bent on punishing the South cut Court membership to eight solely to keep merciful President Andrew Johnson from appointing new Justices who might help to nullify the vengeful Reconstruction Acts. Two years later, with Congress still fearful of the surviving Court, the recurrent plan to curb it by requiring a two-thirds decision against Congressional measures got past the House, but died in the Senate...
...sheriff and jailer sat abed looking sleepy-eyed into grim Henry County faces, part of the mob marched upstairs, broke into the jail. Going straight to the bullpen occupied by six cowering blackamoors, they broke into it with a crowbar. From it they dragged strapping 18-year-old Wes Johnson, itinerant Henry County farm laborer, who had been arrested day before for raping the young wife of a farmer at Tumbleton, 22 mi. away...
With Negro Johnson in tow the mob stomped out, drove off toward Tumbleton in 25 automobiles. After day broke City Editor Joseph David ("Red") Brown of the Dothan Eagle received a telephone tip that Negro Johnson's body could be found near the Tumbleton farm home of Rupert Bond in which the alleged attack had taken place. Editor Brown grabbed his camera and dashed off for Tumbleton. There on the brink of a sparsely wooded ravine, 50 yd. from Farmer Bond's house, he found the bullet-riddled body of Negro Johnson. Tight-lipped farmers, who seemed...
Shoes & Hats. Like the meat packers, the light industries which helped shoe, clothe and hat the U. S. reported a varied year. International Shoe Co. showed an $8,416,000 profit for the fiscal year through November, a slight drop. Endicott Johnson Corp.'s income ($1,974,000) was also off a little from the year before. But it was a good year for hats. Philadelphia's John B. Stetson Co. swelled its profits from $301,000 to $485,334, while Hat Corp. of America (Knox, Dobbs) reported net income of $923,000 in the year through November...
...Crimson's chances of victory may depend upon the success of its entries in the 118 and 126-pound classes. Pat Johnson, Varsity coach, will start Harvey Ross who was unbeaten as a Freshman and is unbeaten this year against Addison Y. Foshay of the Tigers in the 118-pound class and Louis Ach against Richard B. Harding in the 126-pound class...