Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Mayor Hague's great rally, Lawyer Ernst broadcast a rebuttal in which; referring to his Committee for Defense of Civil Liberties in Jersey City, he announced: "I represent those great Communist leaders of the nation, General Hugh Johnson, Dorothy Thompson, Walter Lippmann...
Carrying out his predicted shift in the U. S. diplomatic corps, President Roosevelt last week sent to the Senate his recommendations that 1) trouble-shooting Joseph Patrick* Kennedy-succeed the late Robert Worth Bingham in London, 2) Assistant Secretary of State Hugh R. Wilson succeed anti-Nazi Professor William E. Dodd in Berlin. When news of these appointments leaked out (TIME, Dec. 20), the scramble for embassy chairs left one diplomat awkwardly standing, Lawyer Joseph E. Davies. He had just returned from the Soviet Union to see the President and told the press: "I'll go anywhere the boss...
...this provided a chair for Joe Davies, it took one away from Careerist Hugh Gibson, who was sent to Belgium from Brazil only a few months ago. Letting Diplomat Gibson stand for the moment, the President filled a vacant chair by appointing Norman Armour, his successful Minister to Canada, to succeed retired Hoffman Philip as Ambassador to Chile...
Having been elected Governor of Mississippi two years ago on a novel platform -to keep the late Huey Long from annexing that State to his domain-millionaire Lumberman Hugh White has since ably maintained his reputation for originality. When a reporter once asked him about his favorite hobby, the 250-lb. Governor shyly replied: "A lot of fellows think I'm kidding when I say it ... but what I would rather do than anything else is to sit on the fence and listen to a little pig three months old crack corn. That...
...Veterans Administration in Proviso Township, near Chicago. Charles Hester had complained of a ticking in his head, and doctors could actually hear the ticking by cupping their ears a few inches away. It had bothered him intermittently ever since a shell exploded near him in the War. Colonel Hugh Scott, chief of the hospital staff, diagnosed as follows: "The tick-tock is caused when he moves a certain muscle in his palate. The movement of the palatal muscle carries the sound through the Eustachian tube to the middle ear.'' The muscular agitation in the roof of Veteran Hester...