Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio's best-laid plans for this war was to keep the radio audience hep to devious military movements and tactics. NBC had cornered General Hugh Johnson's spare time. CBS had Major R. Ernest Dupuy, old New York Herald man, World War veteran, author (If War Comes, with Major George Fielding Eliot), and West Point's public relations officer. MBS got Major Kent C. Lambert from Fort Jay, onetime exchange officer with the Polish Army. But last week, almost as soon as war began, all three went out of action...
...more than 20 years four men have played ring-around-a-rosy in Mississippi politics, now denouncing, now supporting each other. Hardened to sudden shifts, Mississippi "peckerwoods"* have listened for two decades with comparatively straight faces to Senators Byron Patton Harrison and Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, to Paul Burney Johnson and Martin Sennett Conner. In 1935 they began listening to another man, Hugh Lawson White, and elected him Governor, some say, for the novelty of a new political face...
Last week came the run-off Democratic primary for the Governorship. Once more the lineups were twisted unbelievably. Now Pat Harrison was supporting Mike Conner, a man he had denounced up and down the State in 1936. Now "The Man" Bilbo was supporting Paul Burney Johnson, whom he had denounced sporadically ever since 1918, when Johnson whipped him in a race for a House seat. Governor White laid off, laid cables for 1940 when he wants Bilbo's Senate seat...
Bilbo's man Johnson won by a solid margin, 162,688-to-136,264. Pat Harrison, unembarrassed by jibes at his constant switching, was now embarrassed in the way a politician best understands it. Apparently faded were his hopes of appearing at the 1940 Democratic National Convention in a good trading position as Mississippi's Favorite Son, for now Bilbo and Johnson will have first say in naming Mississippi's 18 delegates. And "The Man," long-standing Third Termite for Franklin Roosevelt, could lounge happily on the green satin chairs of his lonesome 25-room mansion near...
...home comment on the news, NBC picked big-name specialists General Hugh Johnson and Dorothy Thompson. In her broadcast of last Friday night, Miss Thompson sounded as if she were itching to get her fingers in Hitler's hair. When Commentator Thompson was just getting warmed up, the first important application of U. S. radio's self-imposed censorship code occurred. St. Louis' KWK cut Miss Thompson off the air. Said KWK's president, Robert Convey, as though he might have to give Hitler time to answer her: "It was our belief that Miss Thompson...