Hughes said that he had understood the party was to be in honour of Jerry O'Connor, the proprieter of a Loop gambling house.

The controversial remark was first made Sunday by Hughes at a Westfield Young Democratic Club cocktail party at the Scotch Plains Country Club.

Hemphill said that the Hughes Steel Erection Co. contracted to do the work at an impossibly low cost with a bid that was far less than the `` legitimate '' bids of competing contractors.

On Monday, the Hughes concern was formally declared bankrupt after its directors indicated they could not draw up a plan for reorganization.

The suit was filed later in the day in Common Pleas Court 7 against the Hughes company and two bonding firms.

The bid from A. Belanger and Sons of Cambridge, Mass., which listed the same officers as Hughes, was $600 per joint.

The AIM-7 Sparrow medium range missile ( MRM ) was purchased by the US Navy from original developer Howard Hughes

* In April 2004, Beverly Hughes was forced to resign as minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Counter Terrorism when it was shown that she had been informed of procedural improprieties concerning the granting of visas to certain categories of workers from Eastern Europe.

) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

The price for such support was the resignation of Nationalist ( ex-Labor ) Prime Minister, Billy Hughes, who was replaced by Stanley Bruce.

In high school he was given his first oil paints and learned about his aunt Bessye Bearden's art salons, which stars like Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes attended.

Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. ( April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948 ) was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York.

Hughes was a professor in the 1890s, a staunch supporter of Britain's New Liberalism, an important leader of the progressive movement of the 20th century, a leading diplomat and New York lawyer in the days of Harding and Coolidge, and was known for being a swing voter when dealing with cases related to the New Deal in the 1930s.

Charles Evans Hughes was born in Glens Falls, New York.

Hughes was educated in a private school.

They had one son, Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. and three daughters, one of whom was Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, one of the first humans injected with insulin, and who later served as president of the Supreme Court Historical Society.

Hughes was the grandfather of Charles Evans Hughes III and H. Stuart Hughes.

In 1888, Shortly after he was married, he became a partner in the firm and the name was changed to Carter, Hughes & Cravath.

* 1918 – George Edward Hughes, British philosopher and logician ( d. 1994 )

* 1960 – Finola Hughes, British actress

The British poet Ted Hughes titled a 1973 collection of poems Prometheus On His Crag.

In 2008 The Times ranked Hughes fourth on their list of " The 50 greatest British writers since 1945 ".

After university, living in London and Cambridge, Hughes went on to have many varied jobs including working as a rose gardener, a night watchman and a reader for the British film company J. Arthur Rank.

* British Library – modern British Collections on Ted Hughes.

* October 29 – Finola Hughes, British actress

* June 22 – Irish Republican Army agents assassinate British field marshal Henry Hughes Wilson in Belgravia ; the assassins are sentenced to death July 18.

These operettas which Gervase Hughes calls " notable " ( 1 ) also show a variety of French, Viennese and British influences.

Hughes fronted Finders Keepers in the 1960s as bassist / vocalist, as well as the British funk rock band Trapeze.

Hughes ' autobiography was published in May 2011 by British art-book publishers Foruli.

Richard Arthur Warren Hughes OBE ( 19 April 1900 – 28 April 1976 ) was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays.

* In 1997, the British poet laureate Ted Hughes adapted twenty-four stories from the Metamorphoses into his volume of poetry Tales from Ovid.

Glorious action of the French Admiral Suffren against the British Admiral Hughes in the seas of Ceylon.

In early 1782 British Admiral Sir Edward Hughes captured Trincomalee on the eastern coast of Ceylon, considered to be the finest harbour in the Bay of Bengal.

Suffren attempted to take the Dutch port of Negapatam ( taken by the British in 1781 ), but was frustrated by Hughes.

As a result of his position with Faber and Faber, Townshend developed a friendship with the Nobel prize-winning author of Lord of the Flies, Sir William Golding, and became friends with British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes.

To add to this, many Labor supporters and ministers felt ( wrongly ) that Hughes was manipulated in Britain by the British Government and that he pushed for conscription because of the " flattery " of the Empire.

Though Japan occupied German possessions with the blessings of the British, Hughes was alarmed by this policy.

The song also inspired the nineteenth-century British writer Thomas Hardy, who spoke in Darkling Thrush of the bird's " full-hearted song evensong / Of joy illimited ", but twentieth-century British poet Ted Hughes in Thrushes concentrated on its hunting prowess: " Nothing but bounce and / stab / and a ravening second ".

* Zwicker U., Greiner H., Hofmann K. & Reithinger M., 1985, Smelting, Refining and Alloying of copper and copper Alloys in Crucible Furnaces During Prehistoric up to Roman Times, P. Craddock & M. Hughes, Furnaces and smelting Technology in Antiquity, British Museum, London

* Ted Hughes is made the British Poet Laureate.

Hughes was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984, following Sir John Betjeman.

Plath, wife of Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, took her own life in 1963.

* Following the death of Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, there is a gap of several months before a successor is appointed.

* October 28-Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate of Great Britain

The British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes wrote a poem entitled Sparrow Hawk which refers to this species.

He was poetry critic for several national newspapers and was the Poetry Society nominee for Poet Laureate but was overlooked in favour of Ted Hughes.

While in Great Britain, Plath met Ted Hughes, a respected author, who would later become the British Poet Laureate.

Poet Laureates Ted Hughes, Carol Ann Duffy, and Andrew Motion.

* Ted Hughes – Poet Laureate, 1984 – 1998

" The idea for the Children's Laureate originated from a conversation between ( the then ) Poet Laureate Ted Hughes and children's writer Michael Morpurgo.

He has collaborated with a number of prominent poets including Heaney and the British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, both of whom share his fascination with the elemental.

As it heads north, the stream gives its name to the village of South Tawton and to the late Poet Laureate Ted Hughes ' adopted home town of North Tawton.

The Iron Man: A Children's Story in Five Nights ( 1968 ) is a novel written by British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes ( 1930-98 ) and illustrated by Andrew Davidson.