Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tidbit of information that came out of their hearings on National Defense. Last May when the War Department was short $3,300,000 to purchase machinery to make smokeless powder for the Army, rich, patriotic Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch made an offer to Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson to put up the money from his own pocket. Financed instead by a Congressional appropriation recommended by the President, the machinery is now nearly complete. An obstacle to this generosity: such gifts to the U. S. require an act of acceptance by Congress...
...other side of the war, the Chinese appeared cocky. Back in Washington, Nelson Trusler Johnson, able and well-informed U. S. Ambassador to China, reported that Chinese morale was excellent, China's hopes high. In Chungking, Sun Fo, President of the Chinese Legislative Yuan, son of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, substantiated Mr. Johnson: "Our prospects are progressively brighter. We fight on with growing confidence, new unity and new strength...
...story of the Gunthers is wholly symbolic. Real hero of the play is the American outlook, its love of enterprise and liberty. This is an inspiring theme. But working crudely, emotionally, in headlines, Kaufman & Hart over-sentimentalize their theme. Canny showmen, they know that if, as Dr. Johnson said, patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is also one of the first salvations of a box office; that mother love and dying for one's country are not only the stuff of great art but also the surefire cliches of popular entertainment; that a cavalcade...
Each year on "famous women night," women students of small, coeducational Geneva College (Beaver Falls, Pa.) select a celebrity to honor. The college, which is in the heart of Pennsylvania's steel and CIO area, has thus warmly welcomed such ladies as the late Amelia Earhart, Mrs. Martin Johnson. But it proved too hot last week for the famous woman whom students chose to honor this year-Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins...
...Educational orders," promoted by Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson, to enable industry to prepare for quantity production of war materials in emergency...