Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newshawks at the White House one day last week watched the dandruff-flecked coat collar of Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins as its owner hurried up a corridor to keep an appointment with President Roosevelt. Later the bowlegs of Hugh Samuel Johnson carried that old-time cavalryman over the Presidential threshold. And when General Johnson reappeared, it was to announce without much pleasure that he had just been made Federal Works Progress Administrator for New York City. Boarding a plane with his faithful secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson, the General therewith flew off to New York...
...miniature, it was. Just two years ago the industrial researcher for Speculator Bernard Mannes Baruch had bellowed to newshawks that NRA was to be operated "in a goldfish bowl." Last week Hugh Johnson met Manhattan reporters with the promise that in disbursing New York City's share of the new four-billion-dollar work relief fund he wanted to "give it all a public airing." And he had been only a little more sanguine about taking over NRA and putting six million men to work by Labor Day than he was at becoming a Works Progress Director. At Washington, Newark...
...concerns that manufacture surgical adhesive tape paid practically no attention to the dermatitis which their products occasionally cause until Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming of the U.S. Public Health Service ordered an investigation. Dr. Cumming appointed Dr. Louis Schwartz of his own staff to do the work and Professor Samuel Mortimor Peck, Manhattan dermatologist, to help. They published their report last week...
...bull by the tail. If you think you have an inch of ground to stand on, cut out the shadow-boxing and get this case before the U. S. Supreme Court. I'll wager it will pluck your FDIC so close that, in comparison to its nudity, Hugh Johnson's defeathered Blue Eagle would look as if it were all dressed up in a raccoon coat...
...Hugh Johnson took to the microphone: "NRA is dead. The Blue Eagle is struck to earth. . . . The codes are as though they had not been written...