Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vote. "Let us be glad and rejoice therein!" One happy Zionist, Marcus Wulkin, rapturously bussed Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, chief U.S. representative on the Jewish Agency for Palestine (see cut). But Arab representatives stalked out of the Assembly chamber, saying they would fight the plan. U.S. Delegate Herschel Johnson, who had steered the partition plan to parliamentary victory, was wary of premature rejoicing. "This thing is just beginning," he said wearily...
Little Glimmer. Office of Defense Transportation Director J. Monroe Johnson reported that the steel industry has volunteered to increase supplies to freight-car builders by more than 50%, beginning early next year. Builders raised their production goals to 14,000 new cars a month by next July, giving Johnson the first "glimmer of hope in the freight-car situation...
Protestant Minister Willard Johnson wrote: "The whole problem of relationship of religion to government remains to be settled. . . . This is certainly one part of the 'American Way' which is undergoing change. The historic attitudes of all religious groups, developed at a time when church and state were either united or struggling for dominance, cannot solve the problem. New concepts must be developed for modern conditions, and they should be set forth by all creeds together...
Samples of such new concepts in the making appeared this week in the Congregational quarterly, Social Action, from two of U.S. Protestantism's top spokesmen. Wrote Dr. F. Ernest Johnson, head of Research and Education for the Federal Council of Churches...
Waxworks of Tomorrow. In Racine Wis., S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (Johnson's Wax) began building a radically new research building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, who also designed the com pany's administrative building. The air conditioned structure, which resembles a hollyhock in a glass case (see cut), will be 40 feet square, have 15 floors. Alternate floors will be circular, and all floors will be hung in cantilever fashion from a central reinforced-concrete stem which contains the elevators...