Word: hughe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cordell Hull: "The ascetic type, suggesting a monk of the Middle Ages." Donald Richberg: "A deep thinker." Henry Wallace: "A man of the soil." Hugh Johnson: "The answer to my prayer...
...next expedition was led by Hugh Ruttledge in 1933. It set up a camp higher than any previous climbers had done, fought valiantly against gales, blizzards and avalanches, turned back short of the Norton-Somervell mark. F. S. Smythe, who had conquered 25,447-ft. Mt. Kamet two years before, reached...
...year ago Hugh S. Johnson went to Washington to spend a few weeks putting U. S. Industries under NRA codes. Weeks dragged into months, months into a year. Last week when it came time for the general to take a vacation his score stood: 476 codes made, 262 to go. But the hard-talking NRAdministrator would not go vacationing with his job left in that unsettled state. He delivered an edict: All code-making must be wound up before he gets back to his desk. Then, his conscience content, he hopped an Army airplane with Secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson...
...Died. Hugh Frayne, 64, labor leader, New York organizer for the American Federation of Labor; after long illness; in Manhattan. A conservative, he achieved national importance as chairman of the Labor Division of the War Industries Board. His Wartime campaign for the reclamation of waste material (particularly foodstuffs) won him the Distinguished Service Medal...
...epidemic of infantile paralysis in Los Angeles and San Francisco is not so dangerous as indicated by the number of cases (TIME, July 2), proclaimed Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service last week. He did not think that the situation warranted any discouragement of normal business, recreation or tourist traffic...