Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week General Hugh S. Johnson found himself in much the same sort of hot water as other employers of labor who had been badly scalded by NRA's rigid rules on unionism. Industrialists whom the NRAdministrator had browbeaten into accepting collective bargaining were anything but sympathetic...
...General Hugh S. Johnson's disposition was made no sweeter because he had to spend the week-end in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital having an abscess treated. But the abscess that troubled his flesh was less sore than a flock of boils which last week broke out on the hide...
...offices was small; he kept no stock ticker beside his desk and held no directorships. Nor did he employ a large staff of economic analysts. When he bought into companies he relied on personal investigations or investigations by a few men he trusted. Notable among such men was General Hugh S. Johnson whose talents were devoted to Mr. Baruch's private affairs before they were devoted to NRA. In all business Baruch banked heavily on his judgment of men, backing companies whose managers he trusted, instantly abandoning those whose bosses lacked his faith. He carried his likes and dislikes...
Most notable were Director Fritz Lang (M, Metropolis), on his way to Hollywood for the second time; Director Howard Estabrook, who had been in England making notes for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's forthcoming David Copper field; Novelist Hugh Walpole who, as a vice president of the Dickens Society, had signed with MGM's Associate Producer David Selznick to help keep the Dickens novel from "reeking of America." To ship newsmen Producer Selznick functioned as advance agent for an even more distinguished Hollywood prospect: Britain's onetime Prime Minister David Lloyd George.* Producer Selznick. back from a month abroad with...
...Hugh S. Johnson has in the last twelve-month had many a scrap but until last week he never met adversaries who could and would match him invective for invective. As in the automobile labor fracas, he had two adversaries to beat into agreement: 1) the steelmasters headed by Eugene Grace (Bethlehem), William Archibald Irvin (U. S. Steel) and Leopold E. Block (Inland); and 2) Labormaster Michael Francis Tighe, president of Amalgamated Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, an A. F. of L. affiliate. The issue was simple: should the Amalgamated get control of all steel labor...