Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apes Fred Astaire, and by eleven-year-old Peggy Ryan, who apes Eleanor Powell; singing by Gertrude Niesen, imported from radio; clowning by The Three Sailors, imported from vaudeville; Scotch dialect by Ella Logan, who also sings, dances and makes faces; and specialty bits by Mischa Auer, Gregory Ratoff, Hugh Herbert, Henry Armetta. The climax occurs in the night club when patrons and performers mingle in a musical mob scene which for pure size is the most ambitious of the season. Best song: Top of the Town...
Thursday evening Messrs. Chrysler & Lewis met again to try for a treaty. Columnist Hugh Johnson wrote that the evacuation agreement had been made nearly three weeks earlier by Messrs. Chrysler & Lewis, that it fell through because Mr. Lewis could not reach his lieutenants in Detroit within the time agreed on and because "lawyers and other industrialists" put pressure on Mr. Chrysler to make Governor Murphy oust the sit-downers. Of the post-evacuation negotiations, Hugh Johnson said...
...Hugh Johnson was quite right that neither man was the kind to get himself bogged down in words. John Lewis' middle name is Lewellyn but he is the man who in some of the toughest years in one the toughest industries-Coal-put together the biggest single union in the U. S. Walter Chrysler's middle name is Percy but he is the man who as a young railroad machinist made his first mark by repairing a broken cylinder head on a locomotive in two hours to meet an emergency, who bought his first automobile just to take...
Fred N. Robinson, Gurney Professor of English Literature, and Hugh O'N. Hencken, Curator of European Archaeology at the Peabody Museum, have lately been awarded the degree of doctor of Literature by the National University of Ireland, it was announced yesterday...
...have sufficient powers now to effectively mitigate the wide swings of the business cycle." Bumbled Secretary Roper: "We must not let our optimism cloud vision and obscure danger signals." At once shares on the New York Stock Exchange sold off. Nor were impressionable financiers much encouraged by General Hugh Johnson's wry query in his syndicated column: "Who anointed the Secretary of Agriculture as an economic Isaiah? And where does Uncle Danny Roper get off as a synthetic and official Leonard Ayres or Roger Babson? And why should all markets reflect words of theirs in a marked recession?" Meantime...