Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hays as chairman and Secretary Andrew W. Mellon as treasurer, will be soliciting "as limited a list as possible" for $15,000,000 to put the Presbyterian Ministers' Retirement Plan in operation. The enterprise has the cooperation of many a millionaire, such as Dwight W. Morrow, Alba B. Johnson...
...current "Century", writing under the title, "An Unfortunate Necessity", Gerald W. Johnson discards censorship and discovers a new method of attack. The fault of the newspapers is, he says, not in telling unpleasant news but in telling it unpleasantly. If the journalists were clever enough, his intimation is, they could tell questionable stories in a humorous vein which would alleviate the usual sultry effect or with scientific discernment which would allay popular and fallacious deductions. Yet he never once asks himself or his readers why newspaper men should want to draw the sting from crude news to protect a public...
...Johnson's mistake is the common one. He looks to the producer to set values instead of to the consumer. He forgets that the producer is simply a caterer and that in the case of an individual's revolt at serving bad meats, there are others waiting to take his place and profit from his morality. Undoubtedly there are plenty of ways whereby journalists could fill their columns without resorting the shady sides of law and living. Yet the public would still demand these and with good reason. For if the upper middle class, or even all of what could...
...Johnson and Boswell," Professor Elton, Harvard 6, English...
English 8, Professor Elton, Harvard 6. "Johnson and Boswell...