Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speakers included: Non-Veterans Mary Pickford and Henry Ford; British and French representatives, who made restrained pleas for the Allied cause; and General Hugh S. Johnson, who had been actively fermenting since World War II began and at Chicago finally blew out the cork. His big idea: Stay out of war. Why? Because: "We all went out in the last war to abolish all former diplomatic games of seven-toed pete with deuces wild. . . . With smiles and smirks our associates accepted our childish enthusiasms-while they took our money and our lives. . . . We were told we were going...
...members of the Class of '40, under the command of Lt. L. J. McPeake, U. S. N., cruised on the destroyer, Herbert, while the Freshmen and Sophomores, under Lt. Hugh D. Black, U. S. N., traveled on the battleship Wyoming...
...radio's best-laid plans for this war was to keep the radio audience hep to devious military movements and tactics. NBC had cornered General Hugh Johnson's spare time. CBS had Major R. Ernest Dupuy, old New York Herald man, World War veteran, author (If War Comes, with Major George Fielding Eliot), and West Point's public relations officer. MBS got Major Kent C. Lambert from Fort Jay, onetime exchange officer with the Polish Army. But last week, almost as soon as war began, all three went out of action...
...First casualty was Isolationist Johnson, against whom bellicose Dorothy Thompson, a fellow NBC broadcaster, launched a Blitzkrieg in her newspaper column (see p. 59). Hugh Johnson, letting go a Parthian shot at Miss Thompson* in his own column, made it clear that he was quitting the field because he could not handle both his column and his air assignment...
Most columnists were either violently partisan like Dorothy Thompson or violently non-partisan like Hugh Johnson and Boake Carter. In the New York World-Telegram Harry Elmer Barnes called down a plague on both Europe's houses: "The lip service paid to democracy is only a fake frosting to obscure the underlying imperialism. . . . The current conflict ... is in reality a clash of rival imperialisms...