Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small cottage at Bethany Beach. Del., one tumultuous night last week, General Hugh S. Johnson sat down at his telephone by candlelight. Outside the wind screamed and howled in the flying spume as the tail of a West Indian hurricane lashed the little house, creaked its beams, I rattled its windows...
...HELLO!" screamed General Johnson to Central. "Hello! Get me New York City-Murray Hill...
...This is Hugh Johnson," howled the General. ''Can you take down my column for tomorrow...
...great men', all would be well. But alas, many are not, and in them indifference is no true neutral, philosophical calm, no objective judgment, but rather a petty reserve which too often excludes its possessor from lively interests. The reaction to the Cross-system has resulted in what Dr. Johnson would have described as an infelicitous congress of inharmonious invidualities . . . It is still Utopian to imagine that any university will attempt to educate students by associations and intercourse with other minds and manners, as well as by lecture courses." Mr. Boyle believes in the Clubs, and there is pith...
Died. Magnus Johnson, onetime (1923-25) Farmer-Labor Senator from Minnesota; of pneumonia; at Litchfield. A homespun Swedish immigrant, he was proud of his Washington nickname of "yenerally speaking Yonson." Lured into a cow-milking contest once with the late Secretary of Agriculture Henry Cantwell Wallace, he lost by half-a-pint, protested his cow had been milked previously...