Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was the situation when, fortnight ago, Mr. Baruch returned from Europe. In 1918-19 Bernard Baruch, as head of the War Industries Board, was absolute dictator of U. S. business, an even greater autocrat than Hugh Johnson became under NRA. As generous with his advice and counsel to Republicans as to Democrats, Mr. Baruch was from time to time useful to the Hoover Administration. When Franklin Roosevelt went to Washington, "Bernie" Baruch was slated to be a trusted White House economic observer. "I am a speculator." he said once, "and make no apologies for it. The word comes from...
...myself," the smiling Jew once told a friend, "as the Disraeli of America." The Disraeli image broadened when President Roosevelt invited him up to Hyde Park the third day he was home. Last week, when his onetime lieutenant resigned from NRA, Wall Street was offering even money that Hugh Johnson's boss would be Hugh Johnson's successor. Recalled was this Baruchism: "I've been like a good athlete who is always ready and always in training. And then some God-damned fool drops the ball and . . . they say, 'Baruch's a good fellow. Give...
...HUGH S. JOHNSON...
...Each & every reporter at Hyde Park was aware that General Hugh Samuel Johnson had at last cooked his goose with the President. In his speech on the textile strike week before, NRA's Johnson had denounced the strikers in such violent terms that Labor swore it would have the General's scalp. In the same address General Johnson sealed his official doom, as far as the President was concerned, when he said: "During the whole intense [NRA] experience I have been in constant touch with that old counselor, Judge Louis Brandeis. As you know, he thinks that anything...
Young Poets Wyant Hugh Auden and Stephen Spender, both in their 20's, were contemporaries at Oxford. Each dedicates his book to one Christopher Isherwood. Auden "went down" from Christ Church in 1928, is now teaching at a school near Malvern. Spender left the university three years later, after failing his degree. With an independent income, he can afford to be a professed poet, is at present working on a study of the relation of contemporary writing to political movements and a poetic drama, The Death of a Judge...