Word: hugo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taken and resulted in a vote of 300 to 252 votes in favor of the Government. House of Lords. After days of argument the law lords of the House of Lords* reversed a decision of the Court of Appeals and declared that the infant son of Hon. Mrs. John Hugo Russell, divorced wife of the heir of Baron Ampthill, was legitimate, could succeed to the Ampthill Barony and take his seat in the House of Lords. The divorce decree granted to the Hon. John Hugo Russell was automatically rescinded...
Jean Hateau, citizen of Metz, is reputed to be Victor Hugo's Jean Valjean come to life. Having escaped from Cayenne, French penal settlement in Guiana, in 1904, returned to France under an assumed name, made a modest fortune, become well-known and respected in Metz, he was found out and sent to prison. Fifty prominent people of Metz petitioned the Minister of Justice in Paris for Jean Hateau's release, stating that they wanted him back as a free...
...Hurdles--1, Chester Bowman, Syracuse; 2, Hugo Leistner, Stanford; 3, John Sullivan, Boston College; 4, Scattergood, Princeton; 5, Bullard, Yale...
...Sincerely speaking, I believe my own work superficial. It is true that new composers have much talent, but they are not strong. . . . With the exception of Eric Korngold, composer of Der Tote Stadt, I cannot mention anyone I believe in. I am now working on a libretto by Hugo von Hoff-mansthal, author of The Miracle, which suggests great possibilities...
...Frankfurter sausage containing a little powdered glass and a few cholera germs was the appetizing dish said to have been planned for Hugo Stinnes by the so-called German Cheka-but Stinnes' death (TIME, April 21) foiled the Red plot. In Paris, it was persistently declared that the "King of Coke" had committed suicide. For the first time since the French occupation of the Ruhr, President Ebert is to visit the occupied area. The occasion is the Cologne Industrial Fair. Herr Penfick of the National Liberal League and Professor Meyer, "another politician," have testy tempers. Penfick attacked Meyer...