Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...urged. Checks from the Agriculture Adjustment Administration were descending on the land in a gentle, pervasive rain, damping the prairie fire of farmers' anger. Hers and there law-abiding, patient farmers organized vigilance corps to deal with agitators.*The Corn Belt was quiet as into it came General Hugh Samuel Johnson to speak for the President...
...invited to its headship a famed Scottish lawyer, son of a Scottish parson, Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan of Aberfeldy, co-author of the brilliant "Macmillan Report" of the British Treasury Committee on Finance & Industry. So sound and lucid was it that it became the only Blue Book ever published in Britain to net a profit. Second member of the Commission was another son of a Scottish parson, Sir Charles Addis, onetime director of the Bank of England. These two Scotsmen Premier Bennett balanced with two Canadian bankers, Sir William Thomas White and Beaudry Leman. To give Western Canada...
...smoky blacksmith shop of Hugh McMahan at Newport, Tenn. last week, a young New Yorker named Don Cahill was discussing the NRA. Blacksmith McMahan was an NRA man. Cahill was not. Resenting the city man's talk, the patriotic blacksmith let his temper get the better of him. He picked up one of his tools and flung it at Cahill. Cahill flung back. The blacksmith flung another, Cahill returned it, and Blacksmith McMahan drew his gun shot Cahill dead...
...only 46 because it approved his work as pedagog during the past decade. In Washington some 2,000 people crowded into the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on the campus of Catholic University of America, to see the consecration of its rector, Most Rev. James Hugh Ryan, as Titular Bishop of Modra...
Died. Edward Hugh Sothern, 73, retired Shakespearean actor, husband of Actress Julia Marlowe; of pneumonia; in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel. In 1885 Daniel Frohman spotted him playing in Mona, took him into the Lyceum Stock Company where he became leading man and married the leading lady, Virginia Harned. They were divorced in 1910. Some time before that, began the halcyon days when he toured with Julia Marlowe in a train of twelve cars, doing Shakespeare from Hamlet to Twelfth Night. He "retired" in 1916, appeared again at intervals, collapsed on a Denver lecture platform three years ago and retired...