Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worked together. In 1929 they, with Harold Clurman, founded an experimental studio under the auspices of Manhattan's Theatre Guild, three years later struck out for themselves as the Group Theatre. In the next five years the Group produced such unhackneyed plays as Paul Green's Johnny Johnson, Sidney Kingsley's Men in White, Clifford Odets' Awake & Sing!, Waiting for Lefty, Paradise Lost. Several of these plays were directed by Strasberg...
...1920s an unhappy man named A. M. Johnson, head of National Life Insurance Co. of the U. S. A., bought for his company 11,050 shares of Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co. In 1929 Continental sold as high as $1,020 a share. In 1933 a share of Continental could be bought for precisely $1,000 less; Mr. Johnson's National Life Insurance Co. was, not surprisingly, in receivership. General Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co., which sells about everything else, decided that this was the time to go into the life insurance business. He formed Hercules Life...
...other Boylston prizes, each amounting to $35, went to James Cassels Higgins, Jr. '38, for an excerpt from "Anna Livia Plurabelle," by James Joyce, and to Jonas Norman Muller '40, who gave James Weldon Johnson's "The Creation...
Flying Club officers for the coming year are Whedon Johnson '40, president, Daniel R. Roosevelt '40, vice-president, David O. Hagedorn '41, secretary, George B. Foote '41, treasurer, it was announced last night. C. Daniel Martin '38 is the retiring president...
...identical with Richard Whitney's. When Broker Whitney did it, Wall Street quaked and the press howled. But Broker Campagnoli had never been president of the Exchange and newspapers last week gave him scant attention. Circulated by cynical Wall Streeters, meanwhile, was one of the definitions in Samuel Johnson's dictionary: "Brokers, who, having no stock of their own, set up and trade with that of other men; buying here, and selling there, and commonly abusing both sides, to make out a little paultry gain...