Word: johnstons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helping lawyers and investigators from Washington learn something last week about the dignity and ignorance of Kentucky's rural poor. The lesson was equally onerous for young Mr. McMahon and for defense counsel, who included former Federal Judge Charles I. Dawson of Louisville and Alabama Utilities Attorney Forney Johnston. Thanks to a remarkable prevalence of sickness among talesmen's womenfolk, and the paucity of southeastern Kentuckians who were not in some fashion dependent upon the soft coal industry, the lawyers questioned and discarded over 250 talesmen before they could agree upon a jury...
...case of U. S. v. Mary-Helen Coal Co., et al., fully deserved the intervention of able Mr. McMahon and distinguished Mr. Johnston. For at issue was the repute of Harlan County's coal barons and deputized thugs, whose propensities for murder, assault, and general repression of miners' tendency to join John L. Lewis' U.M.W. was disclosed last year by the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee (TIME, May 3, 1937). At issue also was the question whether a Federal statute enacted just after the Civil War to protect Negroes from Ku Kluxers could be invoked to reenforce...
...Last week South Carolina's Governor Olin Johnston announced, on the steps of the White House, his intention to enter his State's Senatorial primary next August against old, unreconstructed Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith. Trumpeted Governor Johnston: "During my administration as Governor of South Carolina I have backed the reforms and policies of President Roosevelt 100%. In South Carolina . . . the policies of the New Deal . . . have lost none of their popularity. My campaign for the Senate will be based on a record of constant, unshakable loyalty to the Democratic platform and the head of our party...
...Johnston Torney -- Miss Margaret Mellor, Westlawn School...
...Governors of nine southeastern States (White of Mississippi, Leche of Louisiana, Chandler of Kentucky, Cone of Florida, Browning of Tennessee, Hoey of N. C., Johnston of S. C., Rivers of Georgia and Graves of Alabama 1 year ago banded together in a loosely formed "conference" to attract new industries to the South- principally by advertising their States and getting the ICC to fix lower Southern freight rates. Last week, Franklin Roosevelt looked up from his desk to see the smiling faces of seven of the Governors* plus those of his old friends, former Governor Oliver Max Gardner of North Carolina...