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...Chun became Regent and the Emperor Hsuan Tung went back to his nursery. At the age of six, he emerged briefly to abdicate after the successful revolution of Canton's great Sun Yatsen. He continued to live in the Forbidden City, studying with his British tutor. Sir Reginald Johnston, a former customs official of Weihaiwei. and attempting to collect the magnificent salary of $4,000,000 that the Republican Government promised him but never paid...
...Speaking of tennis," he continued, "every man has a blind spot. You may not believe it, but Johnston's was a low forehand drive which showed up when he became tired." A blind spot, as Tilden explains it, is a mechanical defect probably acquired when one is learning the game and is never corrected, however hard the player attempts to do so. The reporter asked him if he had a weak point in his game...
Convicted. Alvanley Johnston. Grand Chief Engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, for mishandling banking funds; in Cleveland, B. L. E. headquarters. Charges had to do with a Brotherhood debt which Cleveland's Standard Trust Bank, partly owned and managed by the Brotherhood, undertook to pay in violation of the law. The court reserved sentence...
...they think she may decide to claim, by their father's will, their town house instead of the farm. By the time Christina has enlightened Theresa Farley (Jane Wyatt) about the cause of squabbles with a husband who teaches law at Cambridge; implied that her oldest brother (Moffat Johnston) might be wise to marry his secretary; consoled her smallest sister for a lost love; made wise responses to a brother who has lost faith in Communism and to another who bitterly pretends to be contented, the Parleys have greater things to think about...
...patent. But last week at Ft. Sam Houston, Major Ocker, oldest pilot in the Army in point of service, was summoned to appear before a court-martial. Charge: insubordination-by using improper language to a superior officer (96th Article of War). Major Clyde C. Johnston had examined Pilot Ocker at Kelly Field, after he recovered from a broken vertebra, and grounded him for weak eyesight. Pilot Ocker, no friend of Kelly Field's hard-boiled com mander, Lieut.-Colonel Henry B. Clagett, took his re-examination at another field, managed to pass the eye test. Back he went...