Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hugh Leichtentritt, Lecturer on Music, will give a series of lectures in Paine Hall on "Music as a Part of General Culture," continuing a similar series given last year. These lectures will be open to all members of the University and to the public...
Vanessa: Her Love Story (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), adapted by Hugh Walpole from his own novel, is an earnest, lachrymose romance of the Jubilee Era, slightly oversold on its message, Love Will Find a Way. Benjie Herries (Robert Montgomery) is the black sheep of a huge English manor-house and bagpipe family. Other members of the family include a female centenarian (May Robson), lovely young Vanessa (Helen Hayes) and an anti-social introvert with a persecution complex (Otto Kruger). The trouble starts when Benjie goes to China instead of marrying Vanessa immediately. When he gets back, the manor house burns down...
...same time, Borah surprised his colleagues by asserting that President Roosevelt and former NRA administrator Hugh S. Johnson had disagreed sharply over methods of protecting the little man under the new deal...
Providence R. I., March 7--General Hugh S. Johnson, former NRA Administrator, told the Rhode Island Bar Association here tonight that there has been a favorable reaction to that part of his Monday night speech in which he attacked the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, the radio priest...
...longer do we have to turn on radio programs featuring Stoopnagle and Budd, Fred Allen, or even Joe Penner, in a desperate search for amusement. We have merely to listen to Hugh Johnson caterwauling about "musical blatant bunk from the rostrum of religion" in reference to Father Coughlin, or another "Pied-Piper (Huey Long) tootling on a penny whistle," all the while mixing his idioms in a grandiloquent style that is the despair of professional comedians. The newspapers also provide farcial tilts, with the highly electric crackles of the buffoon from Louisiana alternating with the heavy artillery of Senator Robinson...