Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming of the U. S. Public Health Service braced himself against hysteria, cried: "In more than one area this year physicians have been reporting as infantile paralysis questionable and mild cases of infection in order to be on the safe side. Thus the figures as reported are not comparable with those of other years in such places. There is also a moderate increase in the number of true cases reported in several areas without any threat of a real epidemic or any direct connection with the Southern epidemic...
Last week Actress Laurette Taylor opened in a play of her own writing. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss, Mrs. Hamilton McK. Twombly, Mrs. Walter Belknap James gave box parties. Governor Green inaugurated a flower show at the Casino. Mr. & Mrs. Enzo Fiermonte arrived to visit her sister, Mrs. Lorillard Spencer. Mrs. Amos Tuck French dropped in on her sister, Mrs. Louis L. Lorillard. Du Ponts, Ripleys, Lippincotts arrived aboard their yachts; the Edris, Elfreda, Fox, Orthea, Kikoko, Oceanic all dropped anchor on a single day. Newport was enjoying the height of its Social Season. And last week...
Parents of Boy Scouts began to feel anxious. Dr. Hugh Smith Gumming, Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service, tried to reassure them: "No special cause for apprehension...
...years ago Pope Pius XI reappointed Monsignor James Hugh Ryan to his second five-year term as rector of the Catholic University of America (Washington, D. C.). Later he made a titular bishop of that broad-faced, black-browed philosopher who had rebuilt the nation's only pontifical university (TIME, Nov. 6, 1933). Last week the Pope named Bishop Ryan, 48, to succeed Most Rev. Joseph Francis Rummel of Omaha, now Archbishop of New Orleans. Catholics viewed as a promotion this transfer to a thriving diocese with no financial troubles. Needing no further consecration, Bishop Ryan will be installed...
...Novelist Hugh Seymour Walpole, arriving on the lie de France in Manhattan on his way to Hollywood to help film Oliver Twist, regaled ship newsmen with an account of how a patent medicine had cured his arthritis: "I went into a London hospital where they pulled out all my teeth and did a lot of other things to me. Nothing seemed to do much good, though. One day my manservant brought me a sinister-looking bottle-it looked like a wine bottle-and on it was written 'Kleano'. I was ready to try anything. I took...