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...cotton grower is Oscar Johnston, whose 50,000 acres of rich Delta soil got him $363,000 of Government benefit payments in four years. Last month Oscar Johnston was appointed special representative of CCC as a cotton idea-man. He had planned to go to South America to close the Peruvian deal; but Peru sent two able representatives* to the U.S., who signed with Claude Wickard in short order. So Oscar stayed in Washington and meditated on cotton's war and post-war worlds...
...incomparable Joe Louis successfully defended his title by knocking out vast (255¼ lb.) Abe Simon, who looks like a worried cigar-store Indian, in 0:16 of the sixth round last week in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Simon and his manager, James Joy Johnston, the aging Boy Bandit, screamed that the count was short; 18,220 fans screamed with delight. Joe turned his purse, estimated at $45,000, over to the Army Emergency Relief Fund. Promoter Mike Jacobs rewarded him with a dozen eating apples...
Eight-hundred miles south and west, other Japanese raiders shelled Johnston Island, an eight-mile-long coral reef and subsidiary base for naval aircraft. Said Imperial headquarters: destruction of "most important defense facilities." Said the U.S. Navy: a weak attack, no casualties...
...first primary campaign, which ended three weeks ago, all three candidates were Roosevelt men. Maybank's opponents were both natives of the plebeian "upcountry" which had ruled South Carolina since 1890. Former Governor Johnston, born in a sharecropper's cabin, once worked as a lint-head in the textile mills. Representative Joseph R. Bryson was once a millhand too. Burnet Maybank called at the White House. When he left, he was authorized to announce that South Carolina would get two more fat power developments: a $28,000,000 project on the Savannah River, southwest of Charleston, another...
Rallying around Bill Gallon's barn, the Johnston kinfolk celebrated with mint juleps, received from their host prints of the precious photo finish that had won the hallowed Hambletonian in Owner Johnston's first...