Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HUGH D. PURCELL...
...Hugh Cecil Lowther, Lord Lonsdale, 74, of the elaborate sideburns, impeccable tailcoats, long black cigar and big buttonhole flowers, announced last week that his financial condition "has become one of considerable difficulty." What with taxes, farm problems and an accident in one of his Cumberland mines which reduced that part of his income from $600,000 to $10,000 yearly, his Lordship said he must lease the shooting at Lowther Castle. Worse, he must sell nearly all his racehorses, for a generation among Britain's finest. Also last week, the Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (grave Elvina Hinds of Alabama...
...Bounds. When their attempt to beat the world-girdling record of Post & Gatty failed at Khabarovsk last fortnight (TIME, Aug. 10) wealthy young Hugh Herndon Jr. and hard-bitten Clyde Pangborn decided to slip down to Tokyo and try a nonstop flight to Seattle for $53.000 prize money. They thought to telegraph the U. S. Embassy in Tokyo for permission to fly over and land on Japanese soil, but neglected to wait for a reply before taking off. That was a grave mistake...
...York-New York? Seventeen minutes after the Cape Cod took off, another Bellanca monoplane chased after her from the same field, the Miss Veedol, manned by Socialite Hugh Herndon Jr. and oldtime Barnstormer Clyde Pangborn. They thought they could beat the eight-day record of Post & Gatty around the world. Their plane was much slower than the bulletlike Winnie Mae but it had a longer cruising range, and Herndon & Pangborn could take turns at the controls whereas Pilot Post was obliged to fly without relief. They gained time by cutting short their stops, but unscheduled landings put the Miss Veedol...
...Draper became Assistant Surgeon General in charge of the Health Service's co-operative services with State and local health authorities. He has worked in New England and Pennsylvania, as well as in Virginia. Governor Pollard had no trouble obtaining his services for Virginia. Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming of the U. S. Public Health Service is also a Virginian, and such an assignment was not without precedent. Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., another Assistant Surgeon General, has been New York State's Health Commissioner the past year, at request of Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In the past, Massachusetts...