Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...away from his duties as president of St. John's College, sworn him in as a Special Assistant Attorney General. From Augusta. Ga. went lean, firm-principled Federal District Judge William Hale Barrett to preside. The Government registered 150 witnesses. Chief defense counsel was a local attorney named Hugh M. Wilkinson, loud-voiced onetime law partner of Huey Long. According to intimates, he was Defendant Shushan's second choice, picked on Long's personal orders...
...Married. Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, 38, Manhattan socialite broker; and Nina Gore Yidal. daughter of Oklahoma's blind Senator Thomas Pryor Gore, divorced wife of Director Eugene Luther Vidal of the Bureau of Air Commerce; in Washington...
Edward Chodorov's "Kind Lady," adapted from a novel by Hugh Walpole and presented by Grace George last season in New York has been brought to Boston as the second in the series on John Craig productions at the Copley Theatre starring Mary Young. Constructed in a prologue, three acts and an epilogue, the play is an exciting drama of the mystery type...
Pennant winners four times, the Detroit Tigers have never won a World Series Last year they led the Cardinals three games to two, then lost two. In 1907 and 1908 under Hugh Jennings they played the Cubs under Frank Chance. The Cubs won the first Series in four straight games, the second four games to one (in the last of which a Detroit crowd of 6,000 set a World Series record for low attendance). Whether this indicates a long-standing Chicago jinx or whether it is a circumstance calculated to increase the efficiency of the Tigers' current campaign...
...this on his mind, Burt Denman got together in Chicago's Union League Club last July with onetime (1929-33) Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde, President Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & North Western Lines, President Troy W. Appleby of Ohio National Life Insurance Co., Utility Lobbyist Hugh Stewart Magill, Banker Henry Samuel Henschen, and some 30 others. Good Methodists all, they were thoroughly alarmed over Methodism's leftward trend. They prepared a statement deploring substitution of "economic and social systems for the Christian ideal of individual responsibility and freedom of choice...