Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connection with our work. What we are dealing with is only the reduction and limitation of armaments. Absolute disarmament remains an ideal the realization of which is scarcely conceivable in the present political and moral situation of the world." President Hoover was represented last week by Ambassador (to Belgium) Hugh Gibson. "We shall contribute," said Mr. Gibson, "a great deal of silence." Dictator Josef Stalin of Soviet Russia was represented by Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov. "This is the last time that Soviet Russia will send a delegation to this Preparatory Conference," he declared, recalling that three years...
...speech in England at King's College, Cambridge, Hugh Walpole recently declared that only six books in the world deserved the name of Literature. This analysts of all the written words of man is reminiscent of a similar attempt on the part of William Lyons Phelps who, as would be expected, compiled his list in much the same manner as a Victorian Sunday School mistress might have edited a "Bible For Young People...
...lady novelists conceive him to be, and as, indeed, he may in truth be. He is charming and his restless spirit brings to life the suppressed longings of the women he meets. His sister, who is married but does not live with her husband, is the female counterpart of Hugh. She effects men the way her brother does women...
...Author. Margaret Kennedy went to Somerville College, Oxford, where, in Sir Hugh Allen's famed Oxford Bach Choir, she acquired the knowledge of music that is demonstrated in many of her books. Still in her early thirties, she has written six books, including a modern European history text. Her husband is David Davis, onetime secretary of Herbert Asquith...
...Surgeon General Hugh Simon Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service; Sir Walter Morley Fletcher, secretary of the Medical Re-search Council of Great Britain; Professor Archibald Vivian Hill of the Royal Society: Dr. James Ramsay Hunt, Columbia's professor of neurology; President William Gerry Morgan of the American Medical Association: Dr. Alfred Stengel, Pennsylvania's professor of medicine: Dr. Alonzo Englebert Taylor, Leland Stanford's director of food research; Johns Hopkins' William Henry Welch, dean of U. S. medicine...