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Died. Douglas McGarel Hogg, first Viscount Hailsham, 78, one of Britain's ablest jurists and staunchest Tories, Lord Chancellor, Secretary of State for War and Lord President of the Council during the '20s and '30s; in Hurstmonceaux, England. Viscount Hailsham's father, Quintin Hogg, was a wealthy reformer, founded London's Polytechnic Institute. Viscount Hailsham's eldest son, Quintin McGarel Hogg (who now succeeds to the title and a seat in the House of Lords), is an M.P., a brilliant lawyer, and author (The Case for Conservatism...
Amiable Arthur Greenwood, Labor's deputy leader, rose to defend the guillotine as "a new experiment resting on the authority of this House." Pink-cheeked Tory Quintin Hogg, looking like a bad-tempered baby, cried out: "Call it the Reichstag and be done with it." Greenwood thrust back: "I think all the potential Führers are on the other side...
...John C. Loos, Jr., Charles G. Loring, Jr., Leonard S. Lunder, Robert L. Matters, Willard H. McDaniel, John C. McKeon, Kennedy B. Middendorf, Thomas C. Moseley, Thaddeus E. Mroz, Henry F. Noonan, Frank H. Powell, Francis R. Powers, Stephen M. Quigley, James A. Robinson, Donald H. Stone, Thomas Quintin Sullivan, John F. Walsh, Lewis G. Warren, Jr., James F. Waterhouse, Thomas G. Wilson, and Manager Joseph A. Minott...
...first postwar conference of Britain's Conservative Party, in the hideously gaudy ballroom of Blackpool's Winter Garden. Tired of limp platitudes, the young bloods arose, one after another, to demand clear answers to hard, embarrassing questions. Spearheaded by bright up-&-comer Peter Thorneycroft and bubble-eyed Quintin Hogg, they asked: What is Tory policy on full employment? Do we believe in planning ahead to prevent mass unemployment? Where do we stand on nationalization? In short, what is our policy? From the bandstand, diehard ex-M.P. Sir Herbert Williams made a weary retort...
...John Quintin Griffith Jr., and colleagues at Penn's Medical School clinic, discovered several years ago that the blood serum of some patients with high blood pressure contained a pituitary hormone which slows up the secretion of urine. A synthetic preparation of the hormone, called pitressin, was found to have a peculiar property: injected into a patient, it reduces urine secretion at first, but after a few days increases...