Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other U. S. Ambassadors: Argentina-Alexander Wilbourne Weddell Belgium-Dave Hennen Morris Brazil-Hugh Simons Gibson Cuba-Sumner Welles France-Jesse Isidor Straus Germany-William Edward Dodd Great Britain-Robert Worth Bingham Italy-Breckinridge Long Japan-Joseph Clark Grew Mexico-Josephus Daniels Peru-Fred Morris Dearing Poland-John Clarence Cudahy Spain-Claude Gernade Bowers Turkey-Robert Peet Skinner...
...reserve energy became an expression of utter fatigue. Perry, dancing around the court, barely able to wait for the ball-boys to furnish ammunition for his serve, smashed through four more games for set, match and title-the first an English player has won in the U. S. since Hugh Lawrence Doherty, 30 years...
Biggest attraction was, of course, the Century of Progress, which on Sunday broke its previous attendance record (272,000 on Aug. 25) to ring up 361,000 paid admissions and rang up another 240,000 Monday when Recovery Administrator Hugh Johnson talked on Labor. But Chicagoland had much else to offer. In suburban Highland Park Virginia Van Wie retained her women's national golf title (see p. 42). In suburban Glenview, 30,000 a day watched the four-day International Air Races (see p. 44). At the Morrison Hotel holy men gathered for the World Fellowship of Faiths conference...
Last week Dr. James Payton Leake, Federal epidemiologist, declared it too early to estimate the extent of the disease's aftereffects, commonly tragic, in St. Louis. But its active ravages were enough to bring U. S. Surgeon-General Hugh Smith Gumming to St. Louis, and for him to order twelve more of his U. S. Public-Health Service experts to join the three already there. It made him decide to ask President Roosevelt for $25,000 from the $400,000 Federal fund for combating epi- demics. In the laboratories of Washington and St. Louis Universities medical scientists worked desperately...
...baby yak born in the Bronx Zoo was christened "General Hughjo" in honor of NRA's General Hugh Samuel Johnson On his 85th birthday, August Heckscher, Manhattan capitalist, charitarian, motored out to the Peekskill camp where he entertains 300 poor children every summer. There he listened to a little girl's speech of congratulations, read a telegram from his friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt, drank three glasses of stout. News photographers had his enormous birthday cake brought outdoors, snapped him plunging a knife into it. Wearied by the noise and excitement, Charitarian Heckscher wandered down to the swimming pool...