James J. Jeffries, Jack Johnson, Bob Fitzsimmons, and later Jack Dempsey were the names that inspired during those years, and he grew up a lover of all contests of violent, masculine struggle.

These villages grew very rapidly between 1890 and 1920 because of the success of the Endicott Johnson Corporation, a shoe manufacturer.

Johnson grew up listening to the ragtime of Scott Joplin and always retained links to the ragtime era, playing and recording Joplin's " Maple Leaf ", as well as the more modern ( according to Johnson ) and demanding, " Euphonic Sounds ", both several times in the 1940s.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, on October 16, 1927, Ray Johnson grew up in a working-class neighborhood and attended an occupational high school where he was enrolled in the advertising art program.

Broonzy's reputation grew and in 1938 he was asked to fill in for the recently deceased Robert Johnson at the John H. Hammond-produced From Spirituals to Swing concert at Carnegie Hall.

As the area initially owned and settled by Johnson grew, he convinced the Governor, Lord William Tryon, to establish a new county in upstate New York west of Albany County.

Inspired by Sun, SST, Rough Trade, Flying Nun Records, CJ Records, Bomp !, Dischord, and many others, Johnson started the label originally with the simple intention of making his friends ' music available to the world, but over time its reputation grew.

The B612 project grew out of a one-day workshop on asteroid deflection organized by Piet Hut and Ed Lu at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, on October 20, 2001.

Throughout the decade, the company grew rapidly via several strategic, sometimes surprising acquisitions: CGA Computer's Top Secret product, plus software makers Capex Corporation, Johnson Systems ( flagship product JARS ), Value Software ( flagship product DISPATCH ) and Uccel Corporation among them.

Johnson grew up with five siblings: Mary Lea Johnson Richards, Elaine Johnson, Diana Melville Johnson, Jennifer Underwood Johnson, and James Loring " Jimmy " Johnson.

:* The team made headlines in 2010 when it " signed " Billy Ray " Rojo " Johnson, described in a press release as an East Texan who grew up in Venezuela and had run-ins with the law.

Johnson was born in the small town of Alamosa, Colorado, in the south-central part of the state ; he grew up in the major metropolitan city of Denver.

Although he entered the story as an outright villain wedging himself violently in between another popular supercouple, Steve Johnson and Kayla Brady, Jack eventually grew to establish himself as a core main character in the Days mythos through his passion, outrageous sense of humor, redemption, and undying love for heroine Jennifer Horton.

Along its route it flows over numerous rugged limestone escarpments as it winds eastward, passing along the north side of the ranch of President Lyndon B. Johnson, who grew up in nearby Stonewall, south of the river.

By analyzing isotopes in Johnson's teeth, it was determined that Johnson was not Canadian but likely grew up in the corn belt of midwest America or possibly Scandinavia.

Jack Dann was born in New York State in 1945 and grew up in Johnson City, New York.

Born in Pryor, Oklahoma, Johnson grew up in Tacoma, Washington, and thereafter made the city his home.

Johnson grew up with four siblings: Keith Johnson, Billy Johnson, Elizabeth " Libet " Johnson, and Christopher Wold Johnson.

Voters increasingly viewed Goldwater as a right wing fringe candidate — his slogan " In your heart, you know he's right " was successfully parodied by the Johnson campaign into " In your guts, you know he's nuts ", or " In your heart, you know he might " ( as in push the nuclear button ), or even " In your heart, he's too far right " ( some cynics wore buttons saying " Even Johnson is better than Goldwater!

Johnson increasingly focused on the American military effort in Vietnam.

Indeed, scholars looking at the evolution of the NSC from its inception to the 1970s contend that the National Security Adviser and his White House centered staff increasingly assumed a more prominent role than the official National Security Council and that Johnson, like Kennedy before him, played a key role in this development.

After his initial 1948 plan to expand the Army and modernize its equipment was rejected by the Truman Administration, Bradley reacted to the increasingly severe postwar defense department budget cutbacks imposed by Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson by publicly supporting Johnson's decisions, going so far as to tell Congress that he would be doing a " disservice to the nation " if he asked for a larger military force.

After Goldwater was defeated by Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Buckley and National Review continued to champion the idea of a conservative movement, which was increasingly embodied in Ronald Reagan.

The Tet Offensive created a crisis within the Johnson administration, which became increasingly unable to convince the American public that it had been a major defeat for the communists.

However the Tet Offensive proved a public relations disaster for Johnson, as the public increasingly realized the United States was deeply involved in a war that few people understood.

Johnson is a fat Anything Muppet who has become increasingly frustrated over the years with the service Grover provides ( however, in the earlier skits, Mr. Johnson was calmer and Grover was the one who would get irritated, but as the years went by, the situation reversed ).

Disillusioned with the increasingly conservative policies of President Andrew Johnson, Speed resigned from the Cabinet in July 1866 and resumed the practice of law.

During the 1970s Johnson became increasingly conservative in his outlook, and has largely remained so.

Frustrated with increasingly frequent and sometimes violent party splits, Johnson abandoned the Democrats and joined the Nativist American Party, known popularly as the " Know Nothings " due to their semi-secret meetings where members frequently responded when asked of their political activities, " I know nothing.

The 10th, which had once been represented by Lyndon Johnson, had long been a liberal Democratic bastion in increasingly Republican Texas.

President Lyndon B. Johnson at first aligned himself with the Shivercrats ( including John Connally ), but after becoming president Johnson increasingly sided with Yarborough and the liberals on policy matters.

Johnson Controls continued to develop new control technologies to help customers better manage their increasingly larger and more complex buildings.

Despite some signs of promise, Johnson Controls was increasingly dissatisfied with the restrictions of the agreement and also sought a more important ally.

In 1916, rather than continuing the failing magazine, the Browne family sold The Dial to Martyn Johnson, who " set the magazine on a liberal, even increasingly radical course in politics and the arts as well as in literature.

General McConnell's role as Chief of Staff of the Air Force, as well as that of the other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Vietnam War, specifically under the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, has recently been the subject of significant historical research in the area relationships between senior military leaders and the civilian political leadership and has increasingly become a topical discussion issue and object lesson for officers attending the nation's senior service colleges ( i. e., Air War College, Army War College, Naval War College and National War College ).

The Queen instructs that Johnson avoid bloodshed, but Schultz's men grow increasingly violent.

By 1994, Eminox was becoming increasingly aware of the growing environmental pressure to clean up diesel exhaust systems ; in conjunction with Johnson Matthey, a leading chemical and catalyst technology company-Eminox developed the CRT ( Diesel Particulate Filter ) system which could filter out 90 % of particulate matter.

In 1950s with recreational and competitive bodybuilding becoming increasingly popular Irvin P. Johnson began to popularize and market egg-based protein powders marketed specifically at bodybuilders and physical athletes.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

John Foster Dulles escaped by keeping his personal show on the road and because Lyndon Johnson, who was then operating the Senate, refused to let it become an Inquisition.

To Decathlon Man Rafer Johnson ( Time cover, Aug. 29 ), whose gold medal in last summer's Olympic Games was won as much on gumption as talent, went the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the outstanding U.S. amateur athlete of 1960.

In a letter to Andrew Johnson, the military governor of Tennessee, encouraging him to lead the way in raising black troops, Lincoln wrote, " The bare sight of 50, 000 armed and drilled black soldiers on the banks of the Mississippi would end the rebellion at once ".

* The World Atlas of Wine, resource on wine by Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson

The American Film Institute ( AFI ) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.

Upon Kennedy's death, President Johnson issued an executive order on November 29, 1963 to rename the LOC and Cape Canaveral in honor of Kennedy.

Johnson was nominated as the vice presidential candidate in 1864 on the National Union Party ticket.

Johnson supported Martin Van Buren and early on expressed an interest in the public lands, eventually being considered a father of the Homestead Act of 1862.

When not on the House floor, Johnson, in Washington without wife Eliza, shunned social functions in favor of increased self study and reading in the Congressional library.

" Johnson frequently alienated his party through a strict adherence to his positions on slavery, the tariff and limited government spending.

Johnson supported the Democratic nominee, Lewis Cass, who thought it up to the people in each state to decide on the issue.

In the campaign for election to his fourth term in 1849, Johnson concentrated on three issues: slavery, homesteads and judicial elections.

Johnson had been so obsessed with the measure that he was said to be " a little cracked on the subject ".

Johnson attempted to make the most of the opportunities the position offered, using it as a springboard to higher honors, as the Governor's powers in the state were limited to offering mere suggestions on legislation ( with no veto power ), and managing the Bank of Tennessee and the penitentiary.

In 1860, the Tennessee delegation nominated Johnson for president at the Democratic National Convention, and Johnson tentatively offered himself as a Vice-President on the Douglas ticket as a back up plan.

Before the Tennessee electorate voted on secession, Johnson, at his peril, toured the state, speaking in opposition to the measure, contending it was unconstitutional.

Johnson was named to the Joint Committee on Conduct of the War whose purpose was to goad-on laggard Union generals ; Johnson, to no avail, used this platform to voice the urgency of military intervention in East Tennessee.

" Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation applied initially only to states in rebellion ; Johnson rationalized that Tennessee in this regard was a part of the Union, and on that basis requested, and received, an exemption from the Proclamation.

By that September Johnson declared he was in favor of emancipation, describing slavery as a " cancer on our society ", and also succeeded in enlisting 20, 000 black troops for the Union.