Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warm and friendly reply to "Dear Hugh," the President accepted Administrator Johnson's resignation effective Oct. 15 "because you and I have felt for some time that NRA has fulfilled its first phase...
...days later in Washington President Roosevelt inducted NRA into its second phase. For its first 15 months of life NRA's executive structure had been monolithic, with Hugh Samuel Johnson as the bottom, top and sides. The structure of NRA's administration was now changed to a pyramid. Broad base was a seven-man board which would carry on the routine duties of code administration. No sooner had these seven members been appointed than statisticians found that four were lawyers, five were in Who's Who, three were economists, two had Phi Beta Kappa keys...
Happy over the confidence placed in an insane man like himself, Hugh Foye took great pains with the hard sauce he mixed last week for the staff and patients of the Danvers (Mass.) State Hospital. Carefully he measured the proper amount of butter and powdered sugar. Carefully he poured in his flavoring. Laboriously he creamed the mixture. And pridefully he took a taste. The flavor was peculiar. He took another taste, and another. Soon Hugh Foye was dead with a stomach ache...
...warned against rushing headlong into it. When Mrs. Meloney pushed a card at Theodore Roosevelt reading "You have one more minute," that speaker swept it aside and talked for three more about "worthwhile work." There was a session on "Changing Standards in the Arts," with contributions from Will Irwin, Hugh Walpole, Pearl Buck, Lawrence Tibbett, Harvey Wiley Corbett, a session on Youth, a session on "The Struggle for Security." But best of all, to many and many a woman in the audience, was a session on "The Changing Status of Women...
Loew's State: "Outcast Lady" and "Have a Heart"--The first picture stars Constance Bennett, Herbert Marshall, Hugh Williams, and Ralph Forbes. The story is taken from the popular novel "The Green Hat". The second picture includes Jean Parker, James Dunn, Una Merkel, and Stuart Erwin in the cast...