Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Frank Nardone, Austin Callahan, Hugh Brown and Robert Gottfried were brought to trial in Manhattan last year for smuggling alcohol, an Alcohol Tax Unit investigator introduced into the record excerpts from 72 tapped telephone conversations. After Nardone was sentenced to three years in prison and his companions to a year and a day each, they appealed their convictions on the ground that Section 605 of the Federal Communications Act of 1934 forbids any person not authorized by the sender to intercept or divulge telephone messages. Denied new trials by a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, they got them...
Married twice legally, five times according to Indian custom, Grey Owl travels with a French Canadian wife and a protector in the person of President Hugh Eayrs of Toronto's Macmillan Co., his publishers.* Mr. Eayrs's duty it is to keep the Grey Owl away from firewater and long-distance telephones, his chief extravagances, to allow him pocket money. From the Saskatchewan Government Grey Owl receives $75 a month as a warden, from lectures he receives up to $500 apiece, and he has a fortune estimated at $50,000. He has also had his portrait done...
...Enlarged prostate gland," wrote Author Davis on the authority of Dr. Hugh H. Young, noted Johns Hopkins urologist, "occurs in-about one third of all men over 50." But Miss Davis has reassurance for all wives who, like fictitious Joan Carson, find their husbands have taken to sleeping in the guest room "after 26 years!" Get your husband to a doctor, is her advice for women whose mates are embarrassed with frequency and difficulty of urination. "Naturally such a condition affects any husband's marital life. That's easy to understand. And he approaches any treatment...
...leaked out, jovially announced to the press: "I'll go anywhere the boss sends me." Best chance for Joe Davies to go anywhere except back to Russia last week was that Franklin Roosevelt might send him to Paris, in case he recalled his friend "Bill" Bullitt to replace Hugh Wilson...
...Octopus (First National). Hugh Herbert and Allen Jenkins as a pair of dimwit sleuths come to death-grips in a lighthouse with an underworld menace known as The Octopus. Lost documents, a character using a hook instead of a hand, secret stairways, octopus tentacles and poison gas are handled in pseudo-mysterious manner, sometimes reminiscent of George M. Cohan's famed burlesque, The Tavern, sometimes just good-natured hokum...