Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York's Federal Relief Administrator Hugh S. Johnson argued himself hoarse trying to convince the unionists that "security wages" would not sap private wages. He offered figures to prove that by working steadily for the Government at security wages they would make more than building tradesmen had averaged on sporadic private jobs for the past five years. He pleaded that the Government could not afford to pay any more. He begged, "Don't do it, boys!" Finally he turned to threats, ordered strikers to be back on their jobs this week or else be dropped from relief rolls...
Devereux, posed for the young drummer boy (TIME, May 9, 1932). The model for the elderly drummer was the artist's father, Rev. Samuel Willard. The bandaged fifer was Hugh Mosher, Civil Warrior, who actually fifed all the time he was posing...
Growing, perhaps, a little tired of successive goodbys to Hugh Johnson, S. Clay Williams and Donald Richberg, the President last week bid farewell to James L. O'Neill, his fourth NRA head, who went back to his job as active vice president of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. leaving unimportant NRA temporarily without a chief...
From Alabama to Albania Hugh S. Grant, onetime secretary to Senator Hugh La Fayette Black, was last week boosted by the President to U. S. Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary...
...worked as a stoker, cook, butcher, clerk, postman, and has been a centre of critical controversy since he began to write. His grim short stories, Men in Darkness, and his novel, Boy, won praise from the late Colonel T. E. Lawrence and other English writers, censure from Author Hugh Waipole and critics who believe that fiction should be polite. Deeply influenced by Balzac and Turgenev, James Hanley has a special dislike for the romances of Joseph Conrad, writes that he is "mostly interested in the insignificant. The more insignificant a person is in this whirlpool of industrialized and civilized society...