Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before he began his revolution, just 25 years ago, "W.P." was school superintendent of Fornfelt, Mo. (pop. 1,200). Then one day he heard that the school board was considering somebody else for the job. Face to face with politics, Waldo Johnson resigned...
Today, after 25 years, W.P.'s Webster Publishing Co. of St. Louis is at the top of the U.S. speller business and his idea has spread. Other publishers have long since begun turning out workbooks like Johnson's. Last week, at W.P.'s silver anniversary banquet, President Robie D. Marriner of the American Textbook Publishers Institute called the Johnson workbook "as significant as any contribution of teacher training itself during the last 25 years." To W.P., it was significant for another reason: it just went to show, he told banqueters, that a man can start with...
...Ready Answer. In three days of speeches and group discussions there was plenty of doing. Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson had a few encouraging words for N.A.M.'s consistent plea for economy in government. Said he: "The $15 billion budget of 1949-50 for our department will be reduced in 1950-51 to $13 billion . . . and our defenses will be appreciably improved. There will be less waste, less duplication, and more efficiency-and the taxpayer will get one dollar's worth of defense out of every dollar spent." From ECAdministrator Paul G. Hoffman there was another encouraging...
Carl Vinson, Chairman of the House Committee on Armed Services, will not support the three-year extension of the present draft law urged by Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, he disclosed in a recent telegram to the CRIMSON...
...United Press story revealed yesterday that Johnson recently told President Truman a three-year addition to the draft is "essential" to national security. Vinson, in a telegram received earlier this month, expressed confidence that Congress would not extend...