Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another ex-New Dealer, General Hugh Johnson, whose own words are none too mild, wrote: "Freedom of speech, like trial by Jury, is a constitutional right-but not for Army officers. . . . The Army is for defense and not for dialectic. The minute it becomes a debating association in the public Press, it is no good for fighting...
...forces in France during the World War; of coronary occlusion; in Manhattan. He returned from the War with six medals, an unswerving conviction that the Army and Navy were obsolete war-toys, and a gift for invective second only to that of Generals Smedley Butler and Hugh S. Johnson. As assistant chief of the Army air forces, he nettled his superiors so often that he was not reappointed. Removed to Texas as a colonel, he blew off the lid in 1925 by charging the War and Navy Departments with "almost treasonable'' administration, used the same words and others...
...business, chief executive being John Durant Larkin Jr. His son, Vice President J. Crate Larkin, is a blue-eyed six-footer of 33. A Williams graduate (Class of 1923) he, too, has written a book, From Debts to Prosperity, is an ardent disciple of Britain's Major Clifford Hugh Douglas, high priest of Social Credit. Last week after experimental application of the Douglas theories in his own office, Mr. Larkin announced...
...Brother Hugh Howell, last of the blacksmith's brood, was for years a satellite of, but no relation to, famed Atlanta Lawyer Albert Howell, brother of Clark Howell, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution. Hugh Howell emerged from obscurity when he stage-managed the Roosevelt pre-election junket to Georgia. With the rise of Eugene Talmadge, Hugh Howell was made chairman of the Democratic State Executive Committee. Brother Hugh did not forget his older brother Alexander, a country schoolteacher, who soon became State School Supervisor. Last autumn "Alex" was also put in charge of WPA Project No. 1744, in which...
Stormed Brother Hugh Howell: "Within a few hours of the moment I nominated Eugene Talmadge for President [at the Macon convention], the wheels were set in motion to hang something-anything- on Georgia opponents of the National Administration. My wife was called on by Federal tax experts and made to show every check stub from 1933. They hoped to make a tax-evasion charge against me. Then they went after my brother. ... If you don't bow down and worship the Wallaces, the Tugwells and the Frankfurters, they want to put you in the penitentiary...