Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of National Defense," the Secretary of National Defense explod ed. "It looks like you people up here would wise yourself up to who are some of the important people in this town . . ." And so Louis Johnson was shown to a seat...
...Johnson was not disarmed. His committee voted 7 to 0 to reject Olds's nomination and two days later the full Senate Committee of Interstate and Foreign Commerce voted 10 to 2 against Olds. It would have been more honest, observed the Washington Post, had the committee rejected him ''on the candid ground that he has been stubborn in his opposition to the utility interests...
President Truman rushed to the defense of his nominee with a sharp letter to Subcommittee Chairman Ed Johnson of Colorado. "The powerful corporations subject to regulation by the commission," wrote the President, "have not been pleased with Mr. Olds." Colorado's tart old Democrat Johnson replied that subcommittee members were "shocked beyond description" by what Olds had once written. He had to admit that Olds as a witness was "very convincing. Like many crusaders for foreign ideologies, he has an attractive personality and is disarming to a very high degree...
Under the chairmanship of U.S. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, the ministers established i) the Military Committee, composed of twelve chiefs of staff (Iceland, having no military establishment, may be represented by a civilian), which is to draw up strategy and "policy guidance" for the Atlantic nations' defense...
First-nighters (among them: the Metropolitan Opera's General Manager Edward Johnson, some of his staff and stars) started right out applauding H. A. Condell's first-act scenery: his baroque boudoir, hung with Rubensian nudes, could hardly have been more apt. The Marschallin's monologue, sung by Vienna State Opera Star Maria Reining, had them clapping again. But the brightest successes were two U.S.-born girls. One was Virginia Haskins (Sophie), a pert, tiny soprano who made her first hits in the Chicago Opera Co. and on Broadway in Carousel. The other was a shy upstate...