Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...EDUCATION OF A DIPLOMAT-Hugh Wilson-Longmans, Green ($2.50). Pleasantly written, diplomatically reticent reminiscences of the present U. S. Ambassador to Germany, covering the period from 1911 to the entry of the U. S. into the War, embassy experiences in Lisbon, Guatemala, Buenos Aires, Berlin...
...them past Becher's Brook Then another American horse, Battleship (son of Man o' War), a small chestnut stallion who began his career as a flat racer, pulled ahead. At Canal Turn, Royal Mail- whose former owner, Hugh Lloyd Thomas, was killed while training to ride the race, whose jockey fractured a collarbone last month-succumbed to his jinx. He burst a blood vessel and pulled out of the race...
...years. Furious, the Board of Trade finally stepped in, told Cargill to sell 1,000,000 bu. in four hours in order to bring its holdings down to the 5,000,000 bu. allowed by the "gentlemen's agreement." Terming this "confiscation of the worst order," President John Hugh MacMillan Jr. of Cargill refused to comply and the Board stopped trading in September futures six days before settlement was clue, ordered all contracts closed...
...Albanian Orthodox Church. Moreover, there are 25,000 Albanian-born Christians in the U. S. Most of the 10,000 living in New England belong to the Christian Albanian Church. The founder of this church, named Fan Stylian Noli, is a Harvard classmate (1912) of Humorist Robert Benchley, Steelman Hugh Gaddis, Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Kermit Roosevelt. He is undoubtedly the only man who was ever, at the same time, a Harvard undergraduate, an able shotputter, an Orthodox bishop aged 19; for Fan Noli, on leaving his Turkish-ruled native land, took pains to organize the church...
...Harvard undergraduate. His courses were not "aesthetic" in appeal, and he taught no sterile tradition of polite letters. . . . It would be a great pity if Harvard should ignore or reject a man whom it has helped to make one of the significant American critics of the day. Hugh Mason Wade...