Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Garrod will speak in his first lecture, next Tuesday, on "Robert Bridges, 'The Testament of Beauty'." The following Tuesday, February 25, his subject will be "Arthur Hugh Clough", and on Tuesday, March 4, he will speak on "Methods of Criticism in Poetry". The series will be concluded Tuesday, March 11, when Professor Garrod will speak on "Matthew Arnold as Critic...
...Charles Schuveldt Dewey (Yale 1904) changed his address from U. S. Treasury Dept., Washington, D. C., to Bank of Poland, Warsaw, Poland. Though he is called "American Financial Adviser to Poland," he and the U. S. disclaim all official connection. As Architect Albert Kahn, of Detroit, and Engineer Hugh Lincoln Cooper, of New York, hire out their expert services to the Soviet, so Economist Dewey puts his expert advice at the disposal of the Polish Treasury. It was he who was behind the recent deal by which Standard Steel Car Corp. underwrote $20,000,000 worth of Polish State Railways...
...cases of psittacosis were reported, eight psittacosis deaths. In Washington, Surgeon General Hugh S. Gumming ordered a nation-wide investigation of psittacosis, to be headed by Dr. Charles Armstrong. In Los Angeles, all pet stores and recently purchased birds were quarantined. In Chicago, one Ben Plonski tried to get rid of an annoying parrot by telling health officers that the bird was "a psittacosis menace to the community." In Manhattan, City Health Commissioner Shirley W. Wynne declared an embargo on parrot shipments from South America, advised parrot owners to wash their hands thoroughly after touching their birds...
Surgeon General Hugh S. Gumming of the Public Health Service was not excited by the situation. He feared no epidemic. But he advised people to have caution when playing with pet parrots...
...Hoover did not charge last week. Instead he sent his most trusted diplomatist, Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, hotfooting to Paris to parley with Prime Minister Tardieu...