Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bayard H. Hale '37, John B. Hamblet '35, L. Harap Gr., Arthur R. Hartwig '37, Morrison C. Haviland '37, Malcolm L. Hayward '37, Everett B. Helm 1G., Hugh F. Hinckley '37, John Homans, Jr. '37, James C. Hepkins '38, F. W. Huffman Gr., Alvan Hyde, Jr. '35, Mason VanB, Jennings '38, William W. A. Johnson '36, George D. Keller '37, Herbert V. Kibrick '38, William G. Kirby '35, Morris E. Lasker '38, Copeland W. Lawson 1G., William Levin '37, Laurence H. Levy '37, John B. Little...
...Congress voted a selective draft and President Wilson proclaimed June 5 as Registration Day. So early a date would have been impossible had not a daring young officer named Hugh Samuel Johnson in the Provost Marshal General's office presumed to draw up and have printed in advance 45,000,000 registration questionnaires. Major Johnson, who had also written the draft bill, promptly mailed his cards to 80,000 sheriffs and mayors. Governors divided their States into registration districts of approximately 30,000 inhabitants. Newspaper notices told prospective draftees where to report-at their regular election polling places...
...aimed to employ some 600,000 white-collar idle for the job, it seemed highly unlikely that the census would be conducted along the quick and economical lines of the 1917 draft at a cost of $300,000, as proposed in his column this week by United Feature Columnist Hugh Samuel Johnson...
...almost like old times last week when General Hugh S. Johnson appeared before the Senate Finance Committee to testify on the bill to renew NRA. The huge Senate caucus room was jam-packed to the doors with twittery spectators. The onetime NRAdministrator looked as tired and bleary-eyed as he did in the late summer of 1933: he had just spent three driving days, three sleepless nights preparing a 20,000-word manuscript on NRA's merits and demerits. And when he hunched himself forward in the witness chair, cocked his spectacles on his nose and began to read...
...Francisco strike. Called back from a Honolulu holiday by jittery publishers, Neylan whipped them into a "law-&-order" coalition with himself as supreme dictator. Taking their orders from him, Hearstpapers and rivals alike followed a uniform editorial policy of attacking the strikers as "revolutionists." During the fight General Hugh Johnson arrived on the scene, began loudly to lecture the publishers on the rights of Labor. When the ex-cavalryman had reached the height of his oratory, the ex-teamster roared between glittering teeth: "I do the shouting in this part of the country, General! You may outargue...