Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President faced only relatively mild characters like Missouri's Bennett Clark, North Dakota's Nye, North Carolina's clownish Reynolds (see p. 16), and Henry Cabot Lodge II, bright but time-abiding. The great Isolationists of yore, Idaho's Borah and California's Johnson, were still on the scene (although Borah had grippe last week) but neither of these packs the punch with today's Senators that he did with yesterday's. Yet to defend the most adventurous President since Wilson, the only major figures in sight were Senators even more moribund...
Founded by a dissident Townsendite named Arthur L. Johnson, General Welfare Federation now maintains the only year-round old-age-pension lobby in Washington. The General Welfare Act it proposes, promising $60 at 60, is based on a gross income tax of persons and firms, exempting only sums paid out in wages, taxes and interest. The plan is modeled after taxes now levied in Indiana and Hawaii, and the federation calculates it could raise $7,000,000,000 a year for pensions in the U.S. The General Welfare Act has 100 pledged supporters in the present Congress. Two of them...
...yard backstroke: Won by W. Johnson (H); second, R. Doherty (B); third, R. Harris (H). Time...
...yard medley relay: Won by Boston (Doherty, Baldwin, Shinney); second, Harvard (Johnson, Girton, Price). Time...
...team produced several noteworthy efforts: Stearns' double triumphs in the 50 and 100, and Johnson's fine 1:07.6 backstroke century...