Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...memoir of his late brother contains a brief (104-page), eminently unsatisfactory biographical note, whose tantalizing omissions are half discretion, half plain lack of knowledge; a few unpublished letters; 31 poems, their general level far inferior to Housman's sensibly strict standard; and the best Housman parody (by Hugh Kingsmill) extant...
...interest in a Boston insurance business (TIME, Feb. 28), was also still buffing, rebuffing, running errands, tracking errors for his father. Rumors that he had squelched Radio Commentator Boake Carter were in turn squelched. Commentator Carter was said to have complained volubly that the Administration had "got" Radiorating General Hugh Johnson for his carping, was now persecuting him. No Administration forced General Johnson from the air nine weeks ago, but cessation of the Grove Bromo Quinine broadcast, on which he appeared, did.* Counter-rumors reported that the President's secretariat, far from "persecuting" Commentator Carter, had used its influence...
...received the Primate of Poland, Alexander Cardinal Kakowski, had told him he was proclaiming St. Andre Bobola the Protector of Poland. That land, nominally 75% Catholic, is dear to the Pontiff. Nearly 20 years ago he was its Papal Nuncio Achille Ratti. He and U. S. Minister Hugh Gibson were among the few foreign diplomats who remained in Warsaw when in 1920 the Bolsheviks advanced upon the city. Warsaw did not fall, but as the Russians retreated they pillaged the countryside, snatched from a shrine in Polotsk the venerated body of Andre Bobola...
...airship route, planned to commence service with the new LZ-130 in June. Then Hitler absorbed Austria and out of the welter of triumphant speeches the U. S. gathered that its helium might be used for war, held up the shipment. Last week Germany inquired through U. S. Ambassador Hugh Wilson when it might expect the agreed shipment of 17,900,000 cu. ft. In January Germany's helium ship Dessau, with 486 steel cylinders aboard, each accommodating 5,600 cu. ft. of highly compressed gas, docked at Houston, Tex., ready to take back to Germany the first installment...
...group forms the nucleus from which the officers are chosen. Those elected were George F. Bateson, Hugh F. Colvin, Alfred J. Dickinson, Jr., Schuler C. Rober, Darwin C. Brown, Edwin Ewing, Jr., Charles M. Williams, William Dibble, A. Kendall Oulie, Paul S. Bowers, and William J. English. A tie between Alfred E. Kurts and Hugh F. Warner will be decided shortly...