Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortnight ago President Roosevelt asked all those who were ready to sign up for his voluntary recovery program to communicate the fact to him at the White House. In the four days before he went off to finish his vacation at Hyde Park he and his Recovery Generalissimo, General Hugh S. Johnson, received about 20,000 responses. On that showing he pronounced his campaign already a success...
...those who sent you that I can detect a Jesuit at sight, however disguised." Once, suspecting a wife of slowly poisoning her husband but having no proof, Sutherland told her that her husband's food was not agreeing with him. He thinks she took the hint. (Author Hugh Walpole has this story in his last book, All Souls' Night...
...York harbor last week aboard the 5. S. American Legion sailed Hugh Simons Gibson, Grade A career diplomat, to take over his new job as Ambassador to Brazil. With him went his dark, distinguished wife, sorry to leave her native Belgium where her husband had been Ambassador for six years. Mr. Gibson used to be President Hoover's Man-About-Europe until replaced by President Roosevelt's Norman Hezekiah Davis...
Late one night last week National Recovery Administrator Hugh Samuel Johnson marched proudly out of the White House with President Roosevelt's signature to a program which they both hoped would put 6,000,000 persons to work by Labor Day. Nothing like it had ever before been seen in the U. S. in peacetime. It was a "war" measure designed to mobilize the entire nation and march it patriotically forward into the biggest and perhaps the final battle with its old enemy, the Depression...
These informal and irreverent remarks of Gen. Hugh Johnson, administrator of the National Industrial Recovery Act, tell most of the story as of today...