Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIGERS OF THE SEA-Colonel Hugh D. Wise -Derrydale Press...
...whose conversation about the niceties of taking sailfish, marlin, broadbill and tuna is lofty and arcane, should welcome a new book about catching huge fish by an author who neither prates of his own prowess nor rates all other quarry as paltry beside his own.* The quarry of Colonel Hugh D. Wise, U. S. Army retired, is sharks. He apologizes for this, admits that sharks are not generally eaten, do not leap when hooked and are not formally regarded as "game" fish. But they are "as strong as a mule and as hard to kill as a cat." They...
...Eleanor Bliss, who collaborated with him throughout on streptococci, next applied Prontylin to the meningococci which cause spinal menngitis. The meningococcus is a close relative of the gonococcus and Dr. Long, busy with the former, suggested that Dr. Colston, brother-in-law of Johns Hopkins' famed Urologist Hugh Hampton Young, try the drug on his gonorrheal patients. Also quick to action. Dr. Colston summoned young Drs. Henry Clay Harrill and John Essary Dees. They went to work only two months ago, promptly saw enough to warrant announcement of one of Medicine's longest strides this century...
Among post-NRA expedients of the Administration which make Hugh Samuel Johnson hot under the collar is the undistributed profits tax. Wrote General Johnson in his Scripps-Howard column last month: "I know a small company that was started with adequate capital in 1929. The crash hit it just as it was getting under way. By some miracle of management it was kept alive through the long valley of the shadow of industrial death from 1929 to 1935. ... In 1936 for the first time it made money—enough money to pay off its debts...
...company in question was one that Hugh Johnson knew very well indeed for the simple reason that he was its president until a year ago, has been board chairman for several years. It was named Lea Fabrics, Inc. after its onetime president and General Johnson's great friend, Robert WT. Lea. Lea fabrics is a $1,500,000 company with a plant in Newark, N. J., where 20 employes turn out automobile carpets for General Motors, Chrysler, many another motormaker. Last week a letter from Chairman Johnson outlined for Lea stockholders the difficulties their company...