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.

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.

When Prime Minister Billy Hughes twice tried to introduce conscription to the country in WWI, Lang sided with the anti-conscriptionist wing of the ALP.

In 1916, the Labor government split when Hughes ( who had succeeded Fisher as Prime Minister the previous year ) tried to introduce conscription.

Ainsworth tried to become Labour candidate for Coventry North East in the run-up to the 1987 general election, after George Park MP announced his retirement, but only came third at the selection meeting, behind John Hughes and Ted Knight.

Prior to representing Leslie Van Houten in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial, Hughes failed the bar exam three times before passing and had never tried a case.

As attorney for defendant Van Houten, Hughes tried to separate the interests of his client from those of Charles Manson, a move that angered Manson and may have cost Hughes his life.

When the Australian Labor Party government of Billy Hughes tried to introduce conscription for the war, Mannix campaigned against it and it was defeated.

After it closed, Morgan " Mickey " Hughes and Fletch Crammer, Jr. tried to reopen the park for one more season and obtained a lease from Winston-Centex.

Hughes was tried for, and found guilty of, the murder of one British Army soldier ( for which he received a life sentence ) and wounding of another ( for which he received 14 years ) in the incident which led to his capture, as well as a series of gun and bomb attacks over a six-year period.

Hughes was tried at Denbigh Assizes in January 1903 and despite pleas of insanity the jury took just ten minutes to find him guilty of murder.

First, Brian Hughes tried his luck in a move that was very popular among the majority of the supporters.

In 1953, he tried to buy the film library of RKO Radio Pictures — including many of the most famous movies made by Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Katharine Hepburn, and Cary Grant — but was rebuffed by the studio's then owner, Howard Hughes.

The commander of the Lark was subsequently tried and condemned for his conduct, and Hughes received the vacated command.

The director Howard Hawks tried to secure his services for the film Red River ( 1948 ), but after Hughes refused to allow Buetel to take part, Montgomery Clift was chosen and Clift went on to an active film career.

Delivered to a nearby manor, the mystery woman is sheltered by the Worralls ( Jim Broadbent and Wendy Hughes ), who are then persuaded by their suspicious butler Frixos ( Kevin Kline ) to have the drifter tried for vagrancy and begging, capital crimes.

Hughes had actually tried to dispose of the estate by public auction in 1829 but this part did not sell.

Hughes was born in Lansing, Michigan, to a mother, Ryan Boudinot, T Cooper, Quinn Dalton, Emily Franklin, Lisa Gabriele, Tod Goldberg, Nina de Gramont, Tara Ison, Allison Lynn, John McNally, Dan Pope, Lewis Robinson, Ben Schrank, Elizabeth Searle, Mary Sullivan, Rebecca Wolff, and Moon Unit Zappa.

The Burning Bed is a non-fiction book by Faith McNulty about battered Dansville, Michigan, housewife Francine Hughes.

The Hughes brothers were born in Detroit, Michigan to an African American father and an Armenian American mother, Aida, whose family were Iranian Armenians from Tehran.

In Vanishing Moments: Class and American Literature ( University of Michigan Press, 2006 ), Schocket examined the way in which class-conscious American literature ( such as by Herman Melville, Rebecca Harding Davis, William Howells, and Langston Hughes ) confronted and addressed the typical American denial of issues of social stratification.

When Hughes found out about the rival film, he did everything he could to sabotage The Dawn Patrol by harassing Hawks and other studio personal, hiring a spy that was quickly caught and finally suing First National for copyright infringement.

This focus on the monastery has led some scholars, most notably Kathleen Hughes, to argue that the monastic system came to be the dominant ecclesiastical structure in the Irish church, essentially replacing the earlier episcopal structure of the type found in most of the rest of the Christian world.

The bullet-riddled corpses of three teenaged Na Fianna scouts Edwin Hughes ( 17 ), Joseph Rogers ( 16 ) and Brendan Holohan ( 16 ) were found at The Quarries, Naas Road, Clondalkin, on 28 November 1922.

Young pike have been found dead from choking on a pike of a similar size, an observation referred to by the renowned English poet Ted Hughes in his famous poem ' Pike '.

Following the 1914 election, the Labor Prime Minister of Australia, Andrew Fisher, found the strain of leadership during World War I taxing and faced increasing pressure from the ambitious Hughes who wanted Australia to be firmly recognised on the world stage.

In spite of her determination, Hughes noted that West sometimes appeared disoriented and forgetful and found it difficult to follow his directions.

Vander Zalm resigned as premier in 1991 when a provincial conflict of interest report by Ted Hughes found he had mixed private business with his public office in the sale of the gardens.

An early mention of the game can be found in the novel Tom Brown's School Days ( 1857 ) by Thomas Hughes.

Once Byng was enrolled at the Staff College, he found amongst his fellow students men with whom he would be closely associated more than two decades later Henry Rawlinson, Henry Hughes Wilson, Thomas D ' Oyly Snow, and James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane and in 1894, while en route to visit a friend at Aldershot, travelled with a cadet at the nearby Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Winston Churchill.

Like Gray and Munroe ( 1929 ) and Lazarsfeld ( 1940 ) before them, Star and Hughes found that while the campaign was successful in reaching better-educated people, those with less education virtually ignored the campaign.

The following proof was adapted by Colin Richard Hughes from a proof of the irrationality of the square root of two found by Theodor Estermann in 1975.

With his experience wrangling for Hughes during The Outlaws location shooting, once in Hollywood he did stunt work for the 1939 movie The Fighting Gringo, and throughout the 1940s he found work wrangling horses and doing stunt work involving horses.

The lawyer at her first trial, Ronald Hughes, had disappeared during the trial and was later found dead.

Another example of the use of " bit " can be found in the poem " Six-Bits Blues " by Langston Hughes, which includes the following couplet: Gimme six bits ' worth o ' ticket / On a train that runs somewhere ....

An analysis of the literature on bisphenol A leachate low-dose effects by vom Saal and Hughes published in August 2005 seems to have found a suggestive correlation between the source of funding and the conclusion drawn.

* Actor Geoffrey Hughes, who found fame in Coronation Street, and later Heartbeat and Keeping Up Appearances, was born in Norris Green.

According to Lauren Shuler Donner, she found Estevez, Nelson, and Sheedy through recommendations from John Hughes, who had cast them in The Breakfast Club.

The late 19th-century Cemaes resident David Hughes, who travelled to Liverpool and found riches in the building industry, lived for much of his life on the island.

Unfortunately, after testing the board found the Hughes design to be of no value, and it was never adopted.

Swiss authorities investigated the " Helga R. Hughes " bank account ; they found that US $ 750, 000 had been deposited and that the Irvings, who by this time had returned to their home on the Balearic resort island of Ibiza, were denying everything.

His Volkswagen was later found with trial transcripts in it, but there was no sign of Hughes.

The search for Hughes continued despite doubts that he would be found alive.

On March 29, 1971, the same day the jury returned death penalty verdicts against all the defendants on all counts, news came that Hughes ' badly decomposed body had been found wedged between two boulders in Ventura County.

Sharp-Hughes Rock Bit found virtually all the oil discovered during the initial years of rotary drilling, and Hughes Jr. became the wealthiest person in the world.

After leaving university, it was seven years before Hughes found work as a stand-up comedian.