Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CLEM SPUTTER (Hugh J. Crossland) Marion, Ohio Nice To Be Glad...
...only did all the Department's most important field work but got credit for being its ablest member. It was no more than natural if Madam Perkins was nettled when labor leaders who had known Ed McGrady for years turned to him instead of her, when Hugh Johnson said of him: "He is a man." At least once she drew herself up in dignity and said, "Now, now Mr. McGrady, I'm the Secretary of La. bor." Not until last week did Ed McGrady finally get the automobile and chauffeur which are routine perquisites of his office...
...where he is expected to start sometime after Labor Day, Ed McGrady will receive from $15,000 to $20,000 a year for smoothing over labor difficulties developing in RCA's three fields of radio: communications, broadcasting & manufac-luring. Year ago, RCA paid his friend General Hugh Johnson-who may have suggested the new arrangement to RCA's David Sarnoff-$40,000 to mediate a single strike in the Camden manufacturing plant. Best guess why Ed McGrady did not abruptly quit last week was that he wanted to let the President start the difficult job of picking...
...Liveliest White House anecdote of the week, which, whether or not true, circulated briskly in Washington last week, concerned fiery General Hugh S. Johnson, whose columns in Scripps-Howard papers have lately been devoted almost exclusively to flaying the Administration. Its substance: Called into Franklin Roosevelt's office, General Johnson found half-a-dozen of his recent columns spread on the President's desk. Said the President (underlining sentences in the columns) : "Hugh, that's a lie ... that's a lie ... that's a lie. . . ." Said General Johnson: "Mr. President, you are the only...
Died. David G. Baillie, 71, oldtime newspaperman, onetime literary secretary to Andrew Carnegie, father of United Press President Hugh Baillie; while vacationing, in Aberfeldy, Perth, Scotland...