Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson lowered the boom last week on congressional junketing in Army & Navy planes. Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas, a veteran finagler, had planned a two-month "inspection trip" overseas and he had asked Johnson to provide air transport for himself and eleven other Congressmen. As chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the armed services, he might have expected a soft answer, but instead he drew a crisp refusal: ". . . The services do not have aircraft to spare for trips of this sort," wrote Johnson. "The cost . . . for such a special flight easily can exceed...
Said Elmer Thomas darkly: "I know Senators will not be pleased." Then he snapped out orders for an investigation into military plane-hopping by all top Administration officials, including Secretary Johnson...
...deal in. They also liked keeping the whole commission for an out-of-town trade, instead of splitting it with a "correspondent" on another exchange. Businessmen also took to the idea of getting a wider market for their companies' shares; a little-known stock like St. Louis' Johnson, Stephens & Shinkle Shoe Co. could now be traded in five cities instead...
...same old cast was on hand. Dr. Hewlett Johnson, Red Dean of Canterbury, proudly fondled the immense gold cross dangling on his chest-a cherished gift from the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei. "To talk of peace in the Soviet Union," said the Dean sanctimoniously, "is like bringing one's samovar to Tula."* Italy's table-thumping left-wing Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni furiously denounced the Atlantic pact as an instrument of war, shouted that President Truman was "a pocket-sized Napoleon . . ." The U.S. was represented by party-lining Negro educator Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, Germany by America...
...past two years, CBS has been the front runner in the Color TV sweepstakes. Only two weeks ago, Government bigwigs popped their eyes at a CBS color demonstration in Washington. Cried Colorado's Senator Ed Johnson: "No one who sees color is ever going to be satisfied with ordinary . . . television again...