Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tory's Son. Oddest fact about the New Deal's No. 2 Fiscal officer is that his father is President Hugh Magill of the American Federation of Investors, a pressure group with a thoroughly Tory orientation. In his younger days Father Magill was a liberal who supported the elder La Follette. When Son Roswell was born 42 years ago Father Magill was the high-school principal in Auburn...
Meanwhile, hurrying from Richmond, Que. by automobile in the vain hope of finding their 12-year-old son alive, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Gendron were struck by an express train, killed...
Like Senator Cotton Ed Smith of South Carolina who last week stamped on it with his feet (see p. g). General Hugh Johnson, when he recently finished reading Ferdinand Lundberg's America's 60 Families, was moved to violent action. So he damned the book in his daily column and roared into a microphone on his Bromo Quinine hour: "It is such a tissue of libel that the father of lies will have to move over on his throne when the spook of that author arrives. Moreover, it is the frankest kind of Communist propaganda." The General...
...work thought of him primarily as an Impressionist composer of small-scale, poetic pieces for orchestra, a sort of minor Ravel. Last week, Manhattan music-lovers were jolted into rating Delius many notches higher. His 33-year-old Mass of Life, given a belated U. S. premiere by Conductor Hugh Ross and the Schola Cantorum, proved the outstanding event of the concert season so far, revealed its composer in a new and very different light. No impressionist miniature, the Mass of Life required the booming efforts of a gigantic chorus, four solo singers and a full symphony orchestra, moved tellingly...
...those carried at the fiscal year-end in 1937." Automobile factories work on an order basis and so have rather small current inventories of cars. But GM dealers alone, according to President Knudsen, now have some 200,000 cars, 60,000 more than normal. This led Pundit Hugh Johnson to comment last week: "The essential cause of this slump was too much inventory in the whole automobile industry...