Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite thesis of Franklin Roosevelt (a thesis also of his severe critic General Hugh Johnson), is that steel prices have been too high and would have to come down to assist recovery. Neither this oft-reiterated suggestion nor the fact that steel production last December fell as low as 19% of capacity appeared to dent the steelmasters' contention that prices could not be cut without a slash in wages. But Franklin Roosevelt was also explicitly on the record against wage cutting. In the face of reduced sales and mounting losses ($1,292,151 lost in the first quarter...
Died. James Weldon Johnson, 67, famed Negro educator, author (Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man), champion of Negro rights; of injuries sustained when his automobile struck a train; in Wiscasset, Me. Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1916-30), he was also the first Negro to hold a consular post (Puerto Cabello, Venezuela); only Negro in the U. S. ever to command a naval detachment (Nicaragua 1912) ; first Negro baseball pitcher to throw a curve...
...jobs, drew a dismal picture of the world. Said New York University's Class Orator Paul H. Kahan: "The boys are prepared to lay down their caps and gowns and accept the pick and shovel of the WPA, if necessary. . . ." At all this Scripps-Howard Columnist Hugh S. Johnson stormed: "The present fashion of going around this nation telling people how miserable they are, how rotten their country is, what little opportunity they have to better themselves, and therefore what their government ought to do and is going to do for them is ... a contemptible kind of demagoguery...
Inventor Green, a lifelong member of the International Typographical Union, prefers not to think about the effect of his labor-saving machine on employment in his craft. Backer Johnson hopes it will mean bigger papers, thus even more jobs. The I. T. U. has already assumed jurisdiction over all workers operating the Teletypesetter...
...Monday morning ten years ago, John R. White, mechanical superintendent of the Charlotte, N. C. Observer, marched into the office of Publisher Curtis Boyd Johnson. He announced that one of his linotype operators, 36-year-old Buford Leonard Green, had a mechanized linotype invention that worked. Three months later, convinced that Green had something worth backing, Publisher Johnson entered a partnership with...