Word: johnstons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend; Eugene R. Black, onetime Governor of the Federal Reserve (see p. 53); Chairman Frank McNinch and Vice Chairman Basil Manly of the Federal Power Commission; David Lilienthal of TVA; Morris L. Cooke of the National Resources Board; Governors-elect Bibb Graves of Alabama and Olin D. Johnston of South Carolina; Governors Talmadge of Georgia and Sholtz of Florida; Senators Robinson of Arkansas and Harrison of Mississippi, who after a four-hour conference jointly declared against the Bonus, for a balanced "normal" budget, with no new taxes next year; President Rudolf Hecht of the American Bankers' Association...
...news was first developed in Manhattan. Aware of the widespread talk about universal fingerprinting, compulsory or voluntary, as an aid to law & order, Vice President Edward C. Johnston of Western Newspaper Union, a feature syndicate serving the rural Press, worked it into a newspaper promotion campaign. With ease he sold the idea to his client Walter B. Sanders, publisher of Geneseo's Leader. Last fortnight the Leader splashed down its front page a two-column invitation to all Geneseans to come to the newspaper office and be fingerprinted, free, by a new process using...
Elated over the result, Mr. Johnston planned to try the fingerprint campaign elsewhere, hoped it would sweep...
...announcement of the production is in line with the Club's policy to make at least one experiment each year in the line of drama. Last year the choice was "A Bride for the Unicorn" by Denis Johnston, a production which attracted wide interest...
...Johnston (p. 63, Oct. 22, TIME) he is correct in his pronunciation of rodeo. It comes from the Spanish verb rodear?to circle?and rodeo merely means roundup. All Texas and Mexico so pronounce the word, but California, for no good reason, calls it Ro- day'o, probably the Iowa pronunciation...