Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conclusion of the tests Major General Johnson Hagood, intered the word "satisfied," declared that anti-aircraft firing was now immensely more efficient than during the War (when French artillery authorities reckoned 10,000 shots to a hit), remarked that the effectiveness of anti-aircraft artillery is not judged by the number of enemy planes it may bring down but by its effect upon the morale of the enemy, forcing him to fly so high that he loses his effectiveness against his own target. Since the targets were only one-quarter the size of actual airplanes, it was felt that...
...night, Robert Underwood Johnson, Director of the Hall of Fame, ex-editor, famed poet, one-time U. S. Ambassador to Italy, was not at the theatre. In bed at his hotel, enveloped in a blue and white dressing-gown, he was writing an ode beneath the electric light. Thus a reporter found him, and elicited these words: "Raquel Meller is the world's greatest living artiste. . . It is hard to analyze just why she is so wonderful for her charm lies in the fact that she is so perfectly graceful in many ways...
...take the boys' championship, 2-6, 6-0, 6-3. Shields and Thomas then paired together to win the doubles title of their division. Holman was not so fortunate. He and his partner, one Pare, relied on individual brilliance to beat the seasoned teamwork of Henry L. Johnson and Malcolm Hill of Waban, Mass., were tidily defeated...
...absorbing Lackawanna Steel and Midvale Steel and Ordinance, "bit off more than it can chew." Earnings of the greater Bethlehem have not been impressive, and evidences of an extreme policy of economy have abounded. The most recent instance has been the retirement of three high-salaried Bethlehem executives-Archibald Johnson and H. S. Snyder, Vice Presidents, and W. E. Tobias, General Manager of Purchases. All three men have been with the company for years, and will be retained "in an advisory and consulting capacity." Several of them became independently wealthy through holdings of the original Bethlehem stock during...
...Australians Patterson and Hawkes took the doubles from Malcolm Hill and Henry Johnson. In an exhibition doubles match, Miss Wills and Miss Mary K. Browne were beaten by Miss Eleanor Goss and Miss Elizabeth Ryan. The last player, home from England, had not played tennis in the U. S. for 13 years...