Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Hugh Johnson plumes himself on his capacity to withstand public criticism. Last week he was inviting the country to step up and find fault with his NRAdministration. But the series in the Post, against which he has long nursed a private grudge, was more than he could stand. Last week in a radio address he flung out this handful of barbed words...
...banks' charters for one year instead of ten in re turn for his promise to call a commission to study Canada's whole banking, currency and coinage system. Head of this com mission, which shuttled all over the Dominion holding public hearings last summer and autumn, was Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron of Aberfeldy (TIME. Aug. 28, Nov. 20). For ten years Lord Macmillan had been heading British com missions including the Royal Commission on Lunacy & Mental Disorder and the Home Office Committee on Street Of fences. His most publicized job was "The Macmillan Report," which he wrote...
...purchase by Peabody Museum of an extremely valuable collection of ornaments and instruments known as the Mecklenburg Collection was announced yesterday by Hugh O. Hencken, curator of the Museum. The price paid for the collection although not divulged by the authorities, is estimated...
...Reiher, Samuel Silverman, Samuel Spencer; as of the Class of 1932, George de F. Bissell, Jr., Spartaco V. Monello, David V. Smith; as of the Class of 1931, Paul A. Fullam, Frederick W. Thon; as of the Class of 1924, Daniel S. Holder; as of the Class of 1918, Hugh M. Hite...
SAMUEL JOHNSON-Hugh Kingsmill- Viking ($2.75). Most-famed biography in English literature is James Boswell's 143-year-old Life of Samuel Johnson. Greatly daring, Author Hugh Kingsmill has written his own version, and his audacity has been successful. Though not comparable to Boswell's book in size (249 pp. to 1,104 pp.) Samuel Johnson can well afford comparison in other ways. Boswell is often thought of as the man who knew Dr. Johnson best. But that is not so. Boswell was a first-hand reporter of only one period of Garrick's actresses excited...