Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 8,000 racegoers turned out at the Long Island estate of the late Hugh A. Murray one day last week for the autumn meet of the United Hunts Racing Association. They saw Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney's chestnut gelding Blot win the main event, the Manhasset Steeplechase, by a half-length. They saw Winston Guest astride Lady Newberry win a thunderous race for polo ponies after his cousin Mike Phipps fell from a slipping saddle in the stretch. But what they enjoyed most, and what many of them had come specially to see, was the four-furlong...
...Long Island you. I won't have five or six men jump on you the way they did on me and then run off. I'll man-to-man it with you." On her 78th birthday, Elizabeth Mead Johnson, mother of NRA's General Hugh Samuel Johnson, told Okmulgee, Okla. reporters: "I have been that boy's mother for 51 years, and I thought he was the greatest thing I ever saw when I first laid eyes on him. He has always been great to me. The NRA has made a new person...
...exclusion of most other troubles (see p. 12). Returning from addressing the American Legion at Chicago, he stopped off in Manhattan to open the charity drive season with an address before the Conference of Catholic Charities (see p. 13). At his town house he received General Hugh Samuel Johnson, just out of the hospital where he had been nursing a painful boil. For him President Roosevelt signed 17 NRA codes, most important of which were those for banks, boot & shoe manufacturers, retail lumber dealers, retail automobile dealers...
...about to turn his attention to the nation's consumers, whose purchasing power was to be set in motion with a "Buy Now" campaign. Special posters, silhouets of the Capitol in blue, were rolling from the presses. Individual manufacturers were ready to launch private advertising campaigns. General Hugh Johnson declared that the "flat wallet era" was about...
...Last week Dr. Hugh Potter Baker, 55, was inaugurated as president of Massachusetts State College. A onetime field worker in the U. S. Forest Service, he organized forestry courses at Iowa State, built up New York State College of Forestry (largest of its kind), organized the Trade Associations Department of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. He is a brother of Author Ray Stannard Baker (David Grayson...