Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attended two games a week for the past 28 seasons. "I remember the time when if they got more than four hits off Walter Johnson they run up the flag," he declared, somewhat embarrassed at being interviewed. "But the new lively ball has changed all that," he added a bit sadly, "they depend on slugging now instead of playing real baseball...
Three years ago pompous Manager Gatti-Casazza resigned, retired to Italy with his wife. As General Manager he was succeeded by Edward Johnson, a trim, smiling man of progressive ideas who promised a new era in operatic production. Among other heralds of the new day came slick-haired Russian Balletmaster George Balanchine. With his youthful American Ballet corps, Balanchine was expected to give Metropolitan audiences a taste of what up-to-date operatic ballet was really like...
Last week sad-eyed Balletmaster Balanchine announced his resignation, taking his American Ballet with him, and Manager Edward Johnson began casting about for new dancers and choreographers. Said ex-Metropolitan-Balletmaster Balanchine: "I would never advise a talented person to go to the Metropolitan. My dances the critics and dowagers did not like. They were too good...
...oldtime Van Sweringen officers, Charles L. Bradley and John P. Murphy, president and secretary respectively of both Alleghany and Chesapeake Corp. Last summer, when Robert Young proposed to eliminate Chesapeake Corp. entirely as an unnecessary corporate entity, these four opposed him. In December, when C. & O. President William Johnson Harahan died, they also opposed Robert Young's decision to elevate longtime General Manager George Doswell Brooke to the presidency. Instead they proposed that President Charles Eugene Denney of Erie R. R. be given...
...fabulous Russian Borodin (alias Ginzberg), with whom Beals used to quarrel over Realpolitik and eugenics. Borodin, claims Beals, invited him to participate in a plot to recover a million dollars worth of Tsarist jewels which he had lost to a double-crossing German revolutionist in Haiti. Pugilist Jack Johnson, a favorite of the carousing Mexican generals, gave Beals a $20 donation to start a literary magazine. Mike Gold disappointed Beals by giving up poetry to become a Communist columnist. D. H. Lawrence, whose genius Beals admitted, disgusted him by his neurotic social behavior...