Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show, but they promised to be a far different kind of affair. After Parliament adjourned in May Premier Bennett, rich and pious Anglophile, often mentioned as candidate for a British peerage, was in London at the Economic Conference. There he got a famed Scotsman to head his banking commission: Hugh Pattison MacMillan, Baron of Aberfeldy...
...false teeth, he rose to eminence by Scotch frugality and toil through his profession, the law. Famed for his brilliant, resourceful mind, his shrewd humor, he is today Chairman of the Court of the University of London, a Peer, a member of Britain's Privy Council (Supreme HUGH PATTISOX MACMILLAN He repulsed a monstrous suggestion. Court). Heading commissions has been his forte: the Royal Commission on Lunacy and Mental Disorder in 1924, the Home Office Committee on Street Offences, 1927, etc., etc. At present he heads a committee revising Britain's 240-year-old income tax laws...
...last week the National Recovery Administration figured it had placed some 9,000,000 workers under work & wage codes signed by 1,000,000 employers. This showing, however, did not satisfy Recovery Administrator Hugh Samuel Johnson. Heavy industries (steel, automobiles, oil, coal) were harder to codify than expected. Re-employment figures did not seem to be keeping pace with the spread of the Blue Eagle. There was more & more talk about "chiselers." Said General Johnson: "We haven't started to apply the heat on this thing yet. This isn't a campaign of a week or a month...
...clock the torrent began to dr,am away. By afternoon it was quiet. Because of the warnings flashed out by Operator Nettie Driscoll and by Hugh Paine, caretaker of the dam, thousands of slumbering Denverites had escaped death. Only two were killed, five reported missing. Property damage exceeded $1,000,000, would have been greater but for the city ordinance that requires all Denver houses to be built of stone, brick, tile or concrete...
Others plan to join as soon as codes are formulated for their businesses and are submitted to General Hugh Johnson. A record of all those who have joined may be found in the Brattle Square Post Office...