Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back in the early days of NRA, brash General Hugh Samuel Johnson used to settle labor difficulties by locking the employes' representatives in one room, employers in another, himself shuttling back and forth. If such could be called Round Table Conferences, then a Round Table Conference was held in London last week-on the Palestine question...
Back of Farnsworth's latest luck were two more bankers with imagination, this time New Yorkers. One was Kuhn Loeb Partner Hugh Knowlton, whose company has been chaperoning Farnsworth financially for four years. The other was Harry Cooke Gushing of E. H. Rollins & Sons, Inc. Last week Farnsworth Television & Radio Corp. filed with SEC a registration statement covering 600,000 shares of $1 -par-value common stock. Mr. Cushing's firm will head a syndicate to raise over $3,000,000 from sale of the stock. Farnsworth Corp. will absorb The Capehart Inc. (famed record-changing phonograph...
...Manhattan Publisher Richard Leo Simon bought a house from Hugh Satterlee, a tax consultant and kin to J. P. Morgan. While he was at it, smart Publisher Simon persuaded Mr. Satterlee to write a book showing people how to fill out their income tax returns. The 1936 and 1937 versions of Your Income Tax sold 80,000 copies. There was no 1938 edition. Last week Simon & Schuster came out with a brand-new edition in a glaring yellow cover bearing the wily subtitle, How to Keep it Down...
...pound class Paul L. Franken '40 of Winthrop won a third round decision over Dean R. Noyes '40 of Kirkland. Chatfield scored a technical knock-out to defeat John II. Notman '41 of Kirkland in the second round of the 135 division. Bragg provided action by knocking out Hugh B. Swainbank '40 for Winthrop's second kayo...
...uncommonly handsome, smoothspoken and astute Roman Catholic prelate is Most Rev. James Hugh Ryan, Bishop for the past three years of Omaha, Neb., and onetime (1928-35) Rector of the Catholic University of America (Washington, D. C.). As head of the nation's only pontifical university, Bishop Ryan was friend to many a secular bigwig in Washington, including Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last December the Bishop, with his good friend Rev. Dr. Maurice S. Sheehy, head of the University's religious education department, called upon President Roosevelt at the White House. Ensued some joking about a mutual interest...