Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Support for the brothers came last week from Federal Communications Commissioner Nicholas Johnson, who criticized the "ignominious silence" of broadcasters who are dedicated to "free speech for profitable speech only. A study of the occasions on which the broadcasting industry has raised the banner to 'free speech,' " said Johnson, "leaves one with the distinct suspicion that these occasions almost invariably coincide with the industry's monetary self-interests...
Only four days after he took office, President Richard Nixon joined one of the biggest and angriest dogfights in airline history. He abruptly canceled a December decision by Lyndon Johnson that had supposedly settled for good a four-year contest for the first new transpacific air routes to be parceled out in 20 years. Johnson's awards, to six of 18 competing airlines, had left Washington seething with charges of high-altitude politicking and string pulling by "rainmakers," the cocktail-circuit term for former L.B.J. aides who had found lucrative jobs with some of the lines. Nixon promised...
Last week, at a surprise press conference held after the stock exchanges had closed for the weekend, the Nixon Administration deftly solved the quandary. First, the White House conceded that a study of the Johnson decision had turned up "no evidence of impropriety." On scrupulously economic grounds, the Nixon formula nevertheless sharply pared Johnson's largesse and excised entirely those awards that had fed the cries of cronyism...
Conspicuous Losers. The big losers were Lyndon Johnson's most conspicuous winners. Houston-based Braniff, which has strong ties to the old Administration, lost a stopover in Mexico, although it retains several new runs to Hawaii which, as domestic routes, are not subject to presidential review. Under the Johnson decision, Los Angeles-based Continental Airlines stood to grow from the eleventh biggest U.S. trunk line into a sizable international carrier serving such South Pacific spots as Samoa, Australia and New Zealand. Continental's President Bob Six had served the previous Administration by providing extensive-if not always clearly...
...mass meeting we will suggest continuing the strike whether or not the other strikers endorse it," said Samuel M. Johnson, a committee member. "It's just a question of whether the committee or the whole group makes the proposal...