Word: johnstons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three months ago, Reporter Alva Johnston appended a postscript to a routine letter to the editors of the Saturday Evening Post: "How about Jimmy R.?" To the Post Jimmy R. sounded good. The postscript became an article on James Roosevelt's thumping success in the insurance business. Last week Reporter Johnston's article (TIME, July 4), published in the Post with none of the author's charges changed or deleted, got more attention in the U. S. press than any magazine article in recent years...
...gossiped about the selling exploits of James Roosevelt: how, after his father's nomination in 1932, the fortunes of his lanky eldest flowered like the lilies in paradise. This week a number of those anecdotes are told publicly in a story, "Jimmy's Got It" by Alva Johnston appearing in the anti-Roosevelt Saturday Evening Post...
...Author Johnston says insurance men estimate Son James's income from his Boston insurance firm (Roosevelt & Sargent Inc.) between $250,000 and $2,000,000 per year, says he built it to that by "twisting" accounts away from other agents by political leverage. Items...
...Author Johnston does not charge that any political quid pro quo was promised to Jimmy's clients. But "some corporations which have given Jimmy insurance have been lucky; some corporations which have denied him insurance have been unlucky...
...which fundamentalist followers of the late Dr. J. Gresham Machen were read out of the Presbyterian Church. As a sudden, random gesture of conciliation toward the Machenites, the nominating committee last week picked a dark horse. The gesture was so random that the dark horse. Rev. Paul Coverly Johnston of Rochester, N. Y., had gone home unaware he was nominated. He telegraphed his withdrawal, whereupon Dr. Pugh won hands down...