Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they had a boat ride on the Potomac, with famed old-time Pitcher Walter ("Big Train") Johnson autographing 300 gift baseballs for the Juniors. They had their own pretty-girl singers and band. They planted a hickory tree near the Washington Monument in soil from every State, Mrs. H. G. Courtney of Norwalk, Iowa, wielding the spade ably assisted by President Combs. They sang Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here, using "heck"' to fill out the line, "What the - do we care!" Unlike city and town carriers, they did not agitate for a 40-hr. week, because...
...money; 2) if a loser does not sue within six months, "any person" can sue the winner for three times the loser's losses, the county taking one-half of the sum recovered. Last week's suit, brought by a Mrs. Libbie Maxwell against "Big Bill" Johnson & four associates, declared that her son-in-law, Herman Van Spankeren Jr., lost $15,000 of hers over a period of seven months in the D & D Club, Horseshoe Club, Harlem Stables and Devlin Club...
Rearguard Guards. Procurement for the peacetime armies and mobilization of industry to supply the war-time armies are the prime duties of the Assistant Secretary of War. While playing Secretary, Assistant Secretary Johnson has not neglected these duties. In fact, he has done a rapid, bang-up job. When he talks about the next war, Louis Johnson emphasizes: "The civilians will be fighting, too." Every U. S. citizen will be mobilized in some fashion. Heart of the War Department's plans for civilians is its Industrial Mobilization Plan, to throw U. S. industry into war-time gear with...
...books and on the way to completion before Louis Johnson took office. His contributions have been: 1) a notably successful effort to "sell" it to big industrialists; and 2) a supplementary Educational Orders Program, approved by the last Congress, whereby the U. S. will supply expensive dies and tools to pivotal manufacturers to test their facilities and train them in military production. This week Mr. Johnson submitted to President Roosevelt a list of the first items to be manufactured under this program. No. 1 on the list: the infantry's semi-automatic rifle, given preference because during the World...
With his mobilization machine in good order, Louis Johnson this week flew toward Alaska. He is to look over the route of a proposed 2,338-mile highway from Seattle to Fairbanks, inquire whether the project has sufficient military value to justify expenditure of U. S. money on a road through Canada. By law, this is no direct concern of the Assistant Secretary of War. But Franklin Roosevelt is interested, and Louis Johnson is glad to accommodate his friend at the White House...