Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after making plows for 23 years for Deere & Co., George Nelson Peek became president of Moline Plow Co. at $100,000 a year, made General Hugh Johnson his chief counsel. As a manufacturer of agricultural machinery, he naturally became deeply interested in farm problems. As a politician, he began agitating for an export subsidy for the U. S. farmer. When Republicans did not solve the farm problem according to his lights, George Peek became a Democrat. As a Democrat he became head of the AAA. As head of the AAA he quarreled with Braintrusters over the agricultural codes, finally resigned...
...Voice of TIME, both on the air and in the cinema, is that of Cornelius Westbrook Van Voorhis, 35, tall (6 ft. 1 in.), brown-haired New Yorker who has also broadcast as Hugh Conrad. In his six years with radio he has worked for some 50 programs using at least five names (some chosen by the sponsors). Bored by the U. S. Naval Academy, he spent his $150,000 patrimony on a leisurely trip around the world. Unsuccessful on the stage, he got a job at $18 a week introducing Jimmy Durante and Cab Galloway at the now defunct...
...interested to know that the portraits on the new Edward VIII stamps of which TIME [Sept. 14] says "the new stamps have simple, modernistic and almost photographic profile views of Edward VIII which really look like him" have actually been reproduced from a recent photograph of the Sovereign by Hugh Cecil Portraits, Ltd. of London, England...
...asininities of James Cagney as Bottom, and Joe E. Brown and Hugh Herbert as two of his dramatic colleagues, are truly asinine, and therefore far superior to the formalized, cut and dried nonsense one is used to seeing...
...both working the same side of the street. Still. Old Ironpants is a public man, and a figure of our time in the U. S. A., and I imagine that years from now, when the historians are writing about the fury of this campaign, they will poke around in Hugh Johnson's stuff to recall the spirit of the fight...