Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another course to be added will be Social Ethics 5, given by Professor Franklin Johnson '93 of Grinnell College on the principles and development of society, both normal and abnormal. The course, consisting of lectures and conferences, will meet on Tuesday and Thursday at 9, and at a third hour to be arranged...
Since the inception of the American League of baseball clubs, 23 years ago, Byron Bancroft Johnson has been its President. As long ago as 1910, he signed a contract to serve in that post for 20 years, at a salary of $30,000 a year. For many, many years he was a sort of Grand Khan of the sport. He lias fought many battles during his career as President of the American League, serene in the confidence of his own ability to deal properly and effectively with whatever situation might arise...
...Johnson was not satisfied. He insisted that the scandal was a much more extensive affair, that it had not been properly investigated. He declared that the World Series should be called off, that there was crookery abroad. Commissioner Landis paid no attention to Mr. Johnson. Mr. Johnson called Commissioner Landis a "wild-eyed crazy...
...conference was held at last, well along in the afternoon. It lasted nearly three hours. The upshot of its was that Ban Johnson was removed from his place on the Advisory Committee of three. Seven of the American League clubs (St. Louis excepted) reinforced this action by a pledge concerning Mr. Johnson...
...ashamed. The popular Abel was a stockbreeder; Abraham Lincoln functioned as ploughman; King David tended sheep-as did Ramsay Mac-Donald; Cincinnatus was twice called from the plough to the Dictatorship of -and twice returned to it; Rousseau was a son of a humble Geneva watchmaker; the famed Dr. Johnson was a son of a poor bookseller; Christopher Columbus helped his father to comb wool; Thomas Alva Edison started life as a newsboy; John Keats, before he became a medical student, used to help his father tend the horses at the Swan and Hoop livery stables; Mohammed was a lowly...