Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gathering the data by which scientists could measure its size, assess its contents. Intelligence officers queried their sources. As the reports came to the capital, half a dozen of the nation's top atomic physicists were gathered there in deepest secrecy. Besides the President and Secretary of Defense Johnson, fewer than two dozen men knew...
...week's end, the Senate voted. On the peril-point amendment, the vote divided almost exactly on party lines; only three Democrats-Colorado's Ed Johnson, Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney, Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas-crossed over to support the solid front of 35 Republicans. It was not enough. The amendment was defeated...
Headline-hunting Louis Johnson should have known he was flying into trouble. When he refused to provide an Air Force plane for a bit of round-the-world congressional junketing (TIME, Sept. 12), Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas whirled in bristling counterattack. He demanded that Defense Secretary Johnson furnish him detailed information on all recent trips made by Administration officials in military aircraft. Then he left town for the weekend...
When Thomas returned to his office last week, one of his first callers was Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Early. After a long and earnest conversation, peace was declared. Johnson issued a formal statement which put Congressmen and federal officials on their honor to use military aircraft only for trips in the "national interest." Definition of national interest was largely left to the conscience of the officeholder and his boss. Cooed Elmer Thomas: "I commend Secretary Johnson for his decision...
...Questions? In Knoxville, Tenn., John O. Blair got a drunken-driving charge dismissed after he stoutly insisted that he was not drunk, but merely shaken by eating overripe watermelon and beer. In Johnson City, Tenn., State Alcohol Tax Agent Jess C. Ford, charged with drunken driving and possession of liquor, explained that it was all in the line of duty: he took a drink at a bootlegger's only to allay suspicion, carried the bottle with him to further the deception...