Word: johnstons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most acid Chamberman was Forney Johnston, slender, sharp-nosed Birmingham lawyer who has led the power fight against Tennessee Valley Authority. Calling the New Deal "a witch's dance of uncoordinated legislation" and referring to "the house-top Allah shoutings of Mr. Ickes and other impeccables," he snapped: "If business is vicious, it has required a century and a half to discover...
...meter run--Won by Playfair (H); second, Woodward (H); third, Gurke (MIT); fourth, Johnston (NU); fifth, Pier (H). Time...
...ALLEN JOHNSTON...
...find a suitable opponent for heavyweight Champion Max Baer is the problem that has vexed Madison Square Garden's Matchmaker Jimmy Johnston ever since Baer won the title from Primo Camera last June. Camera is still the right size, but the U. S. public refuses to believe that he can fight. First step toward clearing up the matter was made last week in Hamburg, Germany, where Max Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, who held the heavyweight championship in 1930-32, started an attempt to get it back with a bout against Steve Hamas, onetime Penn State footballer who thrashed...
...three young married women in Louisville formed an informal literary club, began three novels which they read to each other at meetings. The young women were Alice Hegan Rice, "George Madden Martin" (Mrs. Attwood R. Martin), and Annie Fellows Johnston. Their respective novels were Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, Emmy Lou and The Little Colonel. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch was released as cinema last autumn (TIME, Oct. 29). Emmy Lou will probably appear in cinema next year...