Word: johnson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...problem in wartime: how to insure adequate supplies for easily assembled and quickly trained fighting forces. That task belongs not to General Craig but to a balding, agile gentleman whom older army officers call "that boy" in tones varying from awe to horror. Louis Arthur Johnson...
...Most Government clerks and records had already been sent 650 miles further up river to Chungking. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Chung-hui gave a farewell party to the press before he departed, followed by the envoys of the Great Powers. In most urgent terms U. S. Ambassador Nelson T. Johnson sent Chinese authorities a list of foodstuffs badly needed by the U. S. river gunboat Monocacy. A Chinese clerk revealed the contents of this diplomatic document: "Among other things they asked for canned asparagus and oatmeal breakfast food-almost exactly that is what we have...
Jockeying. Around Happy and his wife in the State government at Frankfort are a hard-hitting group of officials of their own age. Lieutenant Governor (next year's candidate for Governor) is Keen Johnson, 41, former newshawk and writer for Happy's campaigns. Judge Brady Stewart of Paducah is Happy's official manager, but Johnson, State Finance Director Dan Talbott and State Highway Commissioner Bob Humphreys are the active jockeys. Knowing well that behind Barkley would be all the power of Federal patronage, they organized the State's 7,500 jobholders into an efficient Chandler machine...
...will be operated separately from Hamilton-Brown's factories, which turn out men's and women's shoes. Dapper President Collins last week predicted its plants would reach capacity production. at which time there would be only two larger shoe companies in the U. S.: Endicott Johnson Corp. and International...
...years ago Representative Allen T. Treadway of Massachusetts, Republican 13-termer, beat Author Owen (The Var mint) Johnson of Stockbridge, Mass, who ran against him as a New Dealer. Last week, Author Johnson announced he was out again for Congress. Mr. Treadway, 70, said he would run again...