Word: hughes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Army Day. The first four witnesses were Dwight F. Davis, Acting Secretary of War; Major General John L. Hines, Chief of Staff; Brigadier General Hugh Aloysius Drum, Assistant Chief of Staff; and Major General Mason M. Patrick, Chief of the Army Air Service. The Board had presented to them a series of questions: 1) Should the present aviation organization be continued in its present form? 2) Should there be a single Air Service maintained for Army and Navy but separate from them? 3) Should the Air Service be made into a separate corps analogous to the Marine Corps...
Alfred H. Barr, of McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago; Hugh T. Kerr, of Pittsburgh ; Lapsley A. McAfee, of Berkeley, Calif.; Harry C. Rogers, of Kansas City, Mo. ; Henry C. Swearingen, of St. Paul, Chairman; Edgar W. Work, of Manhattan: Dr. W. O. Thompson, retiring President of Ohio State University...
...Muscle Shoals, Ala., the world's largest hydro-electric plant -600,000 h. p. in spring floods, 100,000 h. p. minimum-is now being built. Its construction is under the astute eye of Colonel Hugh L. Cooper, one of the two brothers responsible for the Keokuk and Niagara plants, not to mention various South American projects of great magnitude which they have designed, separately and together...
...England knighted Orpen for mocking some of her greatest lords in sharp colors with an impish brush. It was a time of talent in Dublin, with George Moore mooning about, John M. Synge writing his plays, James Stephens his poetry, quiet young James Joyce his sketches and energetic Sir Hugh Lane slaving to make Dublin a European Art centre...
Died. Arthur Christopher Benson, 63, essayist, biographer, poet; in London. Son of the late Edward W. Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, brother of Edward F. Benson and the late Hugh Benson, both novelists, he came of a family famed in English letters...