Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week, Pilot Hugh L. Woods of McCracken, Kans. raised a big Douglas transport plane off the airfield at Hong Kong. He had 13 Chinese passengers, including two women, a young child and a baby. Half-hour later, as the liner scudded over swampy Chinese delta lands, eleven Japanese planes came tearing in from the direction of the Ladrone Islands, and Pilot Woods promptly ducked into a cloud. When he reached the end of it, five Japanese planes were on his tail, power diving at the Douglas to force it down. "Japanese planes chasing us," radioed Pilot Woods, then...
...Governor Hugh White of Mississippi felt a sharp pain shoot through his chest one afternoon last week, followed by pain in his left arm. Specialists bedded him, treated him for severe cardiac fatigue. Two days later he had the comfort of hearing that the Legislature, in special session, had passed in almost the form he wished it his "dream plan": lifting of all State, county and district (but not municipal) taxes from some 133,000 Mississippi homes valued at not more than...
...highly intelligent star reporter (Rosalind Russell), who are in love respectively with the heiress and the pressagent. Their antics-when the millionaire turns his great Danes loose on the pressagent, when the pressagent retaliates by buttering the tracks of the toy railroad, when a sleepy justice of the peace (Hugh Herbert), confusing the identities of the two young couples at their joint wedding, finally pronounces them "men and wives"-are in the best tradition of the cinema school established by My Man Godfrey and The Awful Truth...
When U. S. Ambassador to Germany Hugh Wilson, an ace career diplomat, suddenly flew to Prague on what he carefully described as "just a holiday visit" to his friend U. S. Minister to Czechoslovakia Wilbur J. Carr, Czechs were delighted...
...conference cheered Dr. Cabot, gasped at Dr. West, applauded Dr. Fishbein's oratory, loudly contested A. M. A. ideas. Asked for no formal endorsement, the delegates hailed Miss Roche's assurance that the next Congress would consider her program. To Manhattan went Dr. Hugh Cabot and friends, where they proceeded to hold their first annual meeting, under the name of the Committee of Physicians. They upheld the Roche program. To their Chicago fortress went A. M. A.'s triumvirate, repeating: "There can be but one master in the house of physician...