Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sir Reginald Fleming Johnson, 63, onetime British Commissioner of Weihaiwei, China, tutor and counselor to the deposed Boy Emperor Henry Pu Yi (now Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo); in Edinburgh, Scotland. Sir Reginald westernized his Manchu charge-watched Pu Yi cut off his pigtail, gave him the Christian name Henry, had his eyes treated by an American ophthalmologist despite the Dowager Empress' threat to give herself an overdose of opium if her son used spectacles...
This week the Freshmen outdid their Varsity elders by downing the New Haven cubs in a closer meet 15 to 12. The Crimson looked best in the foil which they took with an easy 6 to 3 score, led by Johnson's three wins...
Payson Smith, Lecturer on Educational Administration, will preside over the meeting tomorrow night. "The Needs of American Youth" will be discussed by Reverend George Johnson, director of the Department of Education of the National Catholic Welfare Conference...
While Mrs. Evangeline Brewster Johnson Stokowski was in Reno last fall, Hollywood reported that her fun-loving husband was seen dancing Big Apples with Garbo at Hollywood house parties. But the report had a cooked-up whiff to it. Garbo's Conquest was ready for release, and before such events Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pressagents invariably concoct romantic blurbs. But when last December "Stoky" drank fond farewells with Greta in Manhattan on the eve of her departure for Europe, most people agreed that something more than publicity was in the air. When Conductor Stokowski himself sailed for Italy last month...
Meanwhile, a member of the President's Committee, dark, bushy-browed Rev. George Johnson, of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, snorted that Dr. Strayer's charges were "utter nonsense." Catholic children, said he, "should not be deprived of their rights as Americans because they do not happen to be attending public schools." Arriving in Atlantic City to address the convention, the Committee's chairman, wiry Dr. Floyd Wesley Reeves, tried to smooth the waters by explaining the Committee had not suggested that Federal money go directly to parochial schools, but that States and localities receiving Federal...