Word: johnstons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ephemeral press notices of the past month materialized yesterday with the arrival in the Yard of J. L. Johnston, of the studio staff. In order to give every student who forsees for himself a future on the silver screen, every opportunity to sell his personality, ability, and appearance to the representatives of America's second greatest industry, the tests at Harvard will be held on Tuesday, April 26, instead of Saturday, April 23, as previously announced...
...Francis T. Hunter and Dr. George King in the doubles final; conquered, 7-5, 6-3, 6-3. Borotra then whipped Brugnon in the singles, 6-2, 6-4, 6-3. Partisan U. S. spectators derived negative satisfaction in reflecting that the entry list had not included Tilden, Johnston...
...Baker '22, W. P. Dixon '25, R. S. Wright '26, H. N. Rawlins '27, E. W. Debevoise '25, Wallace Johnston, S. P. Clark '14, Ralph Powers, P. M. Lenhart '27, H. T. Balliere. The University team has won 12 national titles since 1911 and up to their defeat here by the English team, they had been undefeated for four years...
...Oklahoma Senate, officially but not individually, declined to continue the embarrassment of Governor Henry Simpson Johnston when it voted, 26 to 23, to table a resolution demanding the dismissal of Mrs. O. O. Hammonds, executive secretary and confidential adviser of the Governor (TIME, March 7). Talk, however, still comes out of Oklahoma concerning the Governor's matronly secretary with whom he is said to plumb spiritualism, occultism, Rosicrusianism. The latest report is that she calls the Democratic State Chairman her errand boy. Meanwhile her husband, Dr. Hammonds, churchgoer from Okmulgee, enjoys pay as State Commissioner of Health...
...Governor Johnston was so pleased that he made her his "executive secretary," his confidential adviser. He appointed her husband State Health Commissioner. She suggested other appointments; grew flippant and haughty toward political leaders. Last week internal affairs in Oklahoma reached an apogee when one of the Governor's friends in the State Senate introduced a resolution demanding the dismissal of Mrs. O. O. Hammond, declaring she was offensive to the Senate. Governor Johnston can take his choice: Rosicrucian philosophy or political tranquility...