Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five billion years ago: the Francqui Prize of 500.000 francs ($23,000) for scientific work of such importance as to boost Belgium's prestige. Donor of the award, second only to the Nobel Prize, is Emile Francqui, banker, one of Europe's dozen richest men. ¶Died. Hugh Cosgro Weir, 49, publisher, author; after a long illness; in Manhattan. A telegram to Carl Laemmle Sr. brought Mr. Weir a job writing scripts for Pearl White. Ruth Roland, et al. With Catherine McNelis he founded an advertising agency in 1928, later published and distributed through 5 & 10? stores...
...twilight in St. Louis last week Hugh Sexton, 29-year-old aviation editor of the Chicago Tribune, climbed into a ten-passenger American Airways plane, started back to his job. For fellow passengers he had a Manhattan advertising man and an Ohio sanitary engineer. Pilot Walter Hallgren had made the St. Louis-Chicago run for six years and was approaching his millionth flight mile. After the plane had bored 100 mi. into Illinois, thick, wet snow began to envelop it. The Chicago radio operator heard its pilot report: "Visibility one-eighth mile, ceiling 500 ft., ice forming on wings...
Philadelphia, March 18--Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, administrator of the NRA, was booed today every time his name was mentioned at a meeting of 800 union automobile workers and strikers at the Kensington Labor Lyceum...
...York, March 16--Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, NRA administrator, and members of the auto code authority will confer here tomorrow in an effort to avert the threatening strike of 100,000 men in the industry expected Wednesday...
WHEN General Hugh Johnson told the assembled industrial representatives last week "You ain't seen nothing yet," he may not have been thinking of the bill sponsored by Senator Wagner of New Your, but the employers of America are ready to admit today that they never saw, read, heard, or imagined anything in the way of a legislative proposal that could remotely resemble the new "Labor Disputes...