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Captain H. Hughes Hough, in command of the Virgins for the Navy Department, will ask Congress to appropriate money for a system of dams and reservoirs to preserve the islands from drought. But as Secretary Denby pointed out, the Navy Department is not responsible for the economic care of the territory. In fact, no department of the Government seems to have the care of the islanders. The Navy Department appoints a governor and lends a staff of engineers, but nothing more. Last year a commission from the Virgins visited Washington to lay their grievances before the Government. They spent several...
...discover the focal point of literary life in Chicago, that literary center of the middle-west, some say, indeed, of America, is a difficult task. Perhaps it is at the White Paper Club, where one finds genial Emerson Hough, active, white-haired, forward-looking rather than given to reminiscing, planning a fishing trip with enthusiasm! There is the office of Poetry, where sits the discoverer of many renowned American poets, Harriet Munroe, and where one may occasionally encounter Henry B. Fuller, one of the quietest and most significant figures in the progress of American letters. There is the University...
...cities are saturated with the literature of escape. Does an old maid or a Babbitt couple pine for romance, they can find it in The New York Journal, the cheap fiction magazines, or the novels of George Barr McCutcheon, Emerson Hough iand Rupert Hughes. Does a young man long for success and a "strong character," he can imagine he is acquiring these things from the American Magazine. Does a harassed and ineffectual "white collar slave" crave some denial of the harshness of existence, he has but to turn to the sermonettes and pepto-optimism concocted daily by Dr. Frank Crane...
...justices who will preside over the mock trial which constitutes the test, and who will also decide the outcome, have been appointed, and are: The Honorable Charles Merrill Hough, United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit; the Honorable Leslie P. Snow, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire; and the Honorable Learned Hand '93, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York State...
Cornell Freshman Crew--Bow, Hoffman; 2, Garnsey; 3, Scheanan; 4, Fix; 5, Dollbaum; 6, Hough; 7, Calleson; stroke, Wheeler; coxswain, Miller...