Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business agent for a Chicago local of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, "Umbrella Mike" Boyle is said to have earned his nickname by his method of collecting donations from electrical contractors and other citizens who sought his favors. Boss Boyle would hang his umbrella on the bar of Johnson's saloon, absent himself while the graftee plunked the agreed sum into it, then return and innocently walk off with the umbrella. In eight years, on a union salary of $35 per week, he saved $350,000. "It was with great thrift," he has explained. As early...
General Hugh Samuel Johnson accepted an invitation to address the 14th annual "Sowbelly Dinner" of the potent Colorado Mining Association at Denver, telegraphed he would fly out. When bad weather grounded him in Washington, the Association's pressagent quickly arranged to transmit the speech by telephone. Due to bad weather there was difficulty completing the circuit, and when his voice was finally heard, General Johnson nettled the fidgety gold & silver miners by talking about copper...
Standing in their way is the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits lending to governments in default of their obligations, but unfortunately there may be legal methods to escape it. The only honest way for Europe to touch our financial reserves again is to climb out of the gutter of default...
...doesn't seem, however, that the American people want that. The mere suggestion of lending abroad conjures up images of foreign entanglements. Fortunately the New Deal is wary of accepting slight payments on the defaults as an excuse for lifting the Johnson Amendment, an excuse better termed a bribe. But in addition, the New Deal should be alert to the dangers of excessive American lending abroad a second time, both because of financial risk and possible involvement in the next European conflict...
Died. Martin Johnson, 52, famed African explorer; of injuries received in a Western Air Express crash; in Los Angeles...