Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...either," said Alice, half to herself. She turned a few pages, as she was tired of the one she had been on, and went on reading: "Hugh Capet in 987 A.D. founded the royal house of France and began the line of kings who were to unite that country into a great nation. The secret of Capetian success was the fact that for hundreds of years the royal line never failed to bring forth a ruler. Every king was able to propagate his kind...
...Bureau of Air Commerce, operators of the radio beam system. Senator Copeland, chairman of the Senate Air Safety Committee, put the whole blame for recent crashes on the Bureau, demanded that it be reorganized, asked for $10,000,000 to improve safety. Other outsiders, such as Columnist Hugh Johnson, screamed violent accusations, suggested equally extravagant remedies. The Weather Bureau added 100 new stations. The Bureau of Air Commerce began an investigation, denied at once that the beam had been out of kilter...
According to the Governor, the purpose of the survey will be to discover whether the budget of the State Colege can be pared. James G. Reardon, commissioner of education, backed his Governor in attacking Hugh P. Baker, president of the State College...
...Hugh L. Gaddis '12, of Cleveland, Ohio, president of the Associated Harvard Clubs in 1934-1935, was elected Chief Marshal of his class at a meeting of the directors of the Alumni Association at the Harvard Club of Boston last night. As head of the 25th reunion of his class, he will lead the Harvard alumni at the Commencement exercises...
Admiral Humphrey Hugh Smith, D.S.O., spent 37 years in the British Navy, but never polished up the handle of any big front door. Now retired, with bluff British candor he admits: "I spend my time on meditating on my utterly misspent but thoroughly enjoyable past." Though he served all through the War, he never mentions that he ever saw action, is mum's self on the subject of his D.S.O...