Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was no showdown last week in Geneva. The Japanese Ambassador did not utter his instructions, which were made known at Tokyo by the Foreign Office spokesman. Therefore they could be changed. President Hoover, through his Geneva representative and close friend Ambassador Hugh S. Gibson, made every effort to get his program debated by the Disarmament Conference, knowing that Italy, Spain and many a minor nation would champion it warmly...
...Geneva was galvanized by news that Washington had a message for the world. Flustered Mr. Henderson called the adjourned Conference back into being. Spectators swarmed buzzing into the galleries. In the press box newshawks hunched forward, fastened their eyes upon the rostrum. When U. S. Ambassador to Belgium Hugh S. Gibson cleared his throat and ruffled his papers, they scribbled that he "looked nervous," mentioned "his snow-white hair, though he is only...
...Washington Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service and Joseph Eugene Ransdell of Louisiana who as Senator from Louisiana got the National Institute of Health established, separately announced that Federal investigators are now working on cancer, leprosy, malaria, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, pellagra, trachoma, tularemia, meningitis, infantile paralysis, heart disease, undulant fever, child hygiene, industrial hygiene, milk sanitation, stream pollution, water purification...
...committees adjourned last week, to meet again after "private conversations" have taken place between the Great Powers concerned. A plan, said to have been devised by President Hoover last January and held in reserve until last week was submitted to the chief delegates by U. S. Ambassador to Belgium Hugh Simons Gibson. Simple, the Hoover plan is this: Let each nation determine for itself and announce to the Conference what weapons & effectives it needs for purposes of maintaining peace & order within its own frontiers. Let weapons & effectives above this minimum be designated as "surplus." Let the nations negotiate afresh...
...Frank Hugh Foster: A theological teacher, who, like our founders, has dreaded to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust...