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...also learned that Hulburt Johnston '29, University crew manager, had been elected president of the association. He, together with Mr. Parker Hamilton, vice-president, and Mr. Lothrop Withington, secretary-treasurer of the association will handle all the details of the regatta...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOOLBOYS TO COMPETE IN ANNUAL REGATTA JUNE 1 | 3/23/1929 | See Source »

...Oklahoma, where political parties are constantly split and where Rosicrudan philosophy (founded 1313) is still a topic of conversation, Governor-Suspend Henry Simpson Johnston went on trial, last week, before the State Senate, sitting as a court on eleven articles of impeachment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ewe Lamb Rebellion | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...middle-aged woman-Mrs. O. O. Hammonds. It was because of her that the impeachment proceedings, long rumbling and long delayed, had been labeled the "ewe lamb rebellion" (TIME, Jan. 28). Four days before the opening of the trial, last week, she resigned her office. Governor-Suspend Johnston announced that, if he were acquitted, he would not reappoint her "in any capacity whatsoever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ewe Lamb Rebellion | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...however, purchasers fail to meet their weekly payments, their interest in their diamond "lapses." and when "lapsation" takes place the money previously paid in becomes profit for the Standard Diamond Co. Mr. Johnston began to worry about what would happen to the interest payments if the "lapsations" began to fall off. Perturbed, he called the District Attorney's office and the Better Business Commission. It was at this point that Mr. Stillings reappeared, ornamented his colleague's desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Small Business | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Enters Mr. Stillings, angry. He drapes the nameplate with black crepe. He puts before it a floral wreath. He adds a placard reading: "Financially Dead." To reporters Mr. Stillings remarks: "Mr. Johnston's conduct has been extremely foolish and I intend to take severe measures with him." As one would suspect, Standard Diamond Co. deals in diamonds. Its patrons agree to pay $1 a week for 100 weeks, at the end of which period they receive a diamond worth $175. If they pay $2 a week for 100 weeks they get two diamonds, worth $350. The company reserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Small Business | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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