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.

To enforce these and other regulations, in 1907 Hughes reorganized the Department of Labor and appointed a well-qualified commissioner.

In 1926, Hughes was appointed by New York Governor Alfred E. Smith to be the chairman of a State Reorganization Commission through which Smith's plan to place the Governor as the head of a rationalized state government, was accomplished, bringing to realization what Hughes himself had envisioned.

In October 1910, Hughes was appointed as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

The only case where a senator was appointed prime minister was that of John Gorton, who subsequently resigned his Senate position and was elected as a member of the House of Representatives ( Senator George Pearce was acting prime minister for seven months in 1916 while Billy Hughes was overseas ).

In 1968, O ' Brien was appointed by Vice President Hubert Humphrey to serve as the national director of Humphrey's presidential campaign and, separately, by Howard Hughes, to serve as Hughes ' public-policy lobbyist in Washington.

His lack of influence was thrown into relief later that year when Kennedy appointed Johnson's friend Sarah T. Hughes to a federal judgeship ; whereas Johnson had tried and failed to garner the nomination for Hughes at the beginning of his vice presidency, House Speaker Sam Rayburn wrangled the appointment from Kennedy in exchange for support of an administration bill.

In January 2012, club chairman Tony Fernandes appointed Mark Hughes as team manager 36 hours after previous incumbent Neil Warnock was sacked.

James Madison, the fourth U. S. President, appointed Hughes postmaster of the developing community of Damascus in 1816.

The college appointed Mr T Harold Hughes ( 1897 – 1949 ) as the Architect for the site.

In 1922, President Warren G. Harding appointed Lodge as a delegate to the Washington Naval Conference ( International Conference on the Limitation of Armaments ), led by Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, and included Elihu Root and Oscar Underwood.

Later Lyons appointed him Minister for External Affairs, however Hughes was forced to resign in 1935 after his book Australia and the War Today exposed a lack of preparation in Australia for what Hughes correctly supposed to be a coming war.

When Harlan Fiske Stone replaced the retiring Charles Evans Hughes as Chief Justice in 1941, Roosevelt appointed Jackson to the resulting vacant Associate's seat.

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

In 1922, and at the age of 77, President Warren G. Harding appointed him as a delegate, headed by Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, to the Washington Naval Conference ( International Conference on the Limitation of Armaments ).

* Edward John Hughes, artist, appointed 2005

In 2002 Hughes was appointed Minister of State for Immigration, Citizenship and Counter Terrorism, but was forced to resign in April 2004 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-she had earlier told the House of Commons that if she had been aware of such facts she would have done something about it.

Following Gordon Brown being appointed as Prime Minister, Beverley Hughes was promoted to Cabinet Minister rather than Government Minister.

In 1978 he was awarded the Freedom of the City of London and was appointed a ship broker with Anderson Hughes.

In 1920, Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes appointed him to head the Division of Latin American Affairs.

In 1923 on the Grouping, he was appointed deputy CME of the newly formed London, Midland and Scottish Railway ( LMS ), under George Hughes and became CME in October 1925.

Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death.

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

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.

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

* Ted Hughes is made the British Poet Laureate.

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.