Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Washington flew Inspector Hugh H. Clegg to direct the hunt of thousands of Federal, State and local officers for the only man who had ever lived to kill more than one Department of Justice agent. Early next morning the dead agents' automobile was found abandoned in suburban Winnetka. The front seat was caked with blood. Soon after in Niles Center a bundle of blood-soaked men's clothes was picked...
...should the visiting husband meet in the glass-enclosed pool-house but the President of the U. S. taking his morning dip. "By the way," said Franklin Roosevelt, grinning up from the water, "you and Mrs. Ford are having dinner with us tonight." Thus just a year after General Hugh Johnson had heatedly announced that neither the Ford Motor Co. nor anyone else could safely defy his Blue Eagle, Mr. & Mrs. Edsel Ford were warmly welcomed by the chieftain of the New Deal. To newshawks who clustered around him in the street, Edsel Ford reiterated that the Ford Company...
...train, supplied by Remington Arms Co. and E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., brought up the rear. At the head of the long column as it swung along through the misty morning rode General Butler with his high command. Straddling a charger was that grim, oldtime cavalryman, General Hugh Samuel Johnson. General Douglas MacArthur, who only a year before had been the Army's Chief of Staff, trotted jauntily beside him. Behind them clop-clopped three past commanders of the American Legion - Hanford MacNider, Louis Johnson and Henry Stevens. Between them and the first squad of marching...
...This text presents very little that is new," frankly observed Walter Hugh R. Wilson, U. S. Minister to Switzerland, as he presented it to the bureau of the World Conference for Reduction and Limitation of Armaments. Basically the U.S. proposes that each state assume responsibility for all manufacture of arms within its borders, proceed to control such manufacture through a uniform system of licenses, and forward full information on all munitions deals to a "Permanent Disarmament Commission" paid for by "a special chapter in the budget of the League of Nations...
...generous mind, but though full of treacheries to friendship it was unwavering in strict loyalty to itself." Katherine Mansfield, "a charming, pathetic figure," had a talent that was "not . . . robust . . . and it was overweighted by an impulsive admiration for the tales of Tchehov." To his much-maligned friend Hugh Walpole he gives the Swinnertonian accolade of "professional novelist." Bertrand Russell's cold logic irritates Swinnerton who says: "The suggestion that a man may know everything and understand nothing would be meaningless to him." To D. H. Lawrence, "a sort of latter-day Carlyle rather than a latter-day Blake...