Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sidelines at Shanghai sat U. S. Vice Admiral Montgomery Taylor aboard his flagship the battle cruiser Houston. At Geneva the U. S. ''observer" was U. S. Minister to Switzerland Hugh Wilson. Three times during a single League Assembly sitting tall, sad-eyed Sir John Simon walked over to Observer Wilson and publicly whispered in his ear. This British courtesy and the general line of Sir John's efforts so pleased Mr. Stimson that next day he told Washington correspondents that now "all nations can speak with the same voice." A spokesman for Observer Wilson said that he was "very grateful...
Married. Zoe Akins, 45, playwright (The Greeks Had a Word For It; Daddy's Gone A-Hunting); and Capt. Hugh Cecil Levinge Rumbold, 48, theatrical designer, half brother of British Ambassador to Germany Sir Horace George Montagu Rumbold; in Pasadena...
...night U. S. Chief Delegate Hugh Gibson addressed the U. S. public by radio in reassuring terms. Next day a correspondent of great courage and some spleen, Frank H. Simonds of Manhattan's Evening Post, flatly accused not only Mr. Gibson but the chief delegates of other Great Powers of deliberately trying to mislead world public opinion...
...these women Senor de Madariaga promptly become Hero of the Hour. Promptly Sir John Simon and Chief U. S. Delegate Hugh Gibson went into action, tearing the gallant Spaniard's proposal to tatters, forcing the Conference Steering Committee to rule against him and to rule the miscellaneous women...
Foils: R. C. Ackerman, Isador Miller, Hugh Parkhurst; Sabre: Elmer Harp, Jr., W. K. Wyant, Jr.; Epee: W. F. Williams, Jr., D. L. Oliver...