Rep. Charles E. Hughes of Sherman, sponsor of the bill, said a failure to enact it would amount `` to making a gift out of the taxpayers' pockets to banks, insurance and pipeline companies ''.

Hughes, however, would be unsuccessful in achieving one of his main goals as governor: primary voting reform.

In striking down these rates as an interference with interstate commerce, Hughes recognized that the logic of his argument would permit federal regulation of any action that affected commerce.

The traditional public art program began during the Depression in the 1930s when Iowa State College ’ s President Raymond Hughes envisioned that " the arts would enrich and provide substantial intellectual exploration into our college curricula.

As white people began going to Harlem to watch black dancers, according to Langston Hughes: " The lindy-hoppers at the Savoy even began to practice acrobatic routines, and to do absurd things for the entertainment of the whites, that probably never would have entered their heads to attempt for their own effortless amusement.

In the late 1980s, the warm up stretches performed by Merv Hughes would often be mimicked by the crowd at Bay 13.

However, Page let it be known that his party would not serve under Hughes, and forced his resignation.

In 1958 they met Leonard Baskin who would later illustrate many of Hughes ' books, including Crow.

While he supported the idea of a federal income tax, Hughes believed the words " from whatever source derived " in the proposed amendment implied that the federal government would have the power to tax state and municipal bonds.

President Harding was very specific in commenting on the appointment of Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes, that the secretary would be the sole spokesman for the State Department ( as opposed to the Wilson administration ).

Richard Hughes, in Hongkong: A Borrowed Place, A Borrowed Time, stated " William Jardine would have made his mark as admirably as a soldier as he did as a Tai-pan.

Although he had not actively sought the nomination, Hughes made it known that he would not turn it down ; he won the nomination on the third ballot.

In The Music of Arthur Sullivan ( 1959 ), Hughes quotes four extracts from Pirates, saying that if hearing each out of context one might attribute it to Schubert, Mendelssohn, Gounod or Bizet respectively, " yet on learning the truth one would kick oneself for not having recognised Sullivan's touch in all four.

He wrote only four novels, the most famous of which is The Innocent Voyage ( 1929 ), better known now as A High Wind in Jamaica, as Hughes himself would rename it shortly after its initial publication.

Meier told Donald that he was sure the Democrats would win the election because they had considerable information on Richard Nixon ’ s illicit dealings with Howard Hughes that had never been released, and that Larry O ’ Brien had the information.

However, the Country Party had never liked Hughes ' rural policy, and their leader, Earle Page let it be known that he would not serve under him.

It was the second time the Country Party had effectively vetoed its senior partner's choice for the leadership ; in 1923 Earle Page had demanded that the Nationalist Party, one of the forerunners of the Liberals, remove Billy Hughes as leader before he would even consider coalition talks.

Beginning with a set of decisions in March, April, and May, 1937 ( including the Social Security Act cases ), the Court would sustain a series of New Deal legislation .... Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes played a leading role in defeating the court-packing by rushing these pieces of New Deal legislation through and ensuring that the court's majority would uphold it.

Terry Hughes directed most of the episodes, and would later direct The Two Ronnies, The Golden Girls and 3rd Rock from the Sun.

The Fisher government legacy of reforms and national development lasted beyond the divisions that would later occur with World War I and Billy Hughes ' conscription push.

" Editor Paul Hirsch explained that Hughes had a trance-like concentration to his script-writing process, working for hours on end, and would later shoot the film on essentially what was his first draft of the script.

No official soundtrack was ever released for the film, as director John Hughes felt the songs would not work well together as a continuous album.

In between the events of Chasing Amy and Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob decide to go to be the " blunt connection " in Shermer, Illinois, ( where most of John Hughes ' films are set ) because they believe that all the guys there are jerks and that there would be girls crawling all over them.

Thomas Hughes ( author of Tom Brown's Schooldays ) was asked to comment on the game as played when he attended the school ( 1834 – 1842 ).

Hughes is renowned for his comment in Parliament about readers of The Guardian, many of whom support Labour, in support of new anti-terrorism legislation following the September 11, 2001 attacks:

" Hughes went on to comment positively on the episode's debut of the high-definition opening sequence, and its introduction of Joyce Kinney as a replacement for news anchor Diane Simmons, who was killed off in " And Then There Were Fewer ".

-- James P. Mitchell and Sen. Walter H. Jones R-Bergen, last night disagreed on the value of using as a campaign issue a remark by Richard J. Hughes, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, that the GOP is `` Campaigning on the carcass of Eisenhower Republicanism ''.

Hughes said Monday, `` It is the apparent intention of the Republican Party to campaign on the carcass of what they call Eisenhower Republicanism, but the heart stopped beating and the lifeblood congealed after Eisenhower retired.

Jones said he regretted Hughes had made a personal attack on a past president.

In his only attack on the Republicans, Hughes said, `` The three Republican candidates for governor are tripping over their feet for popular slogans to win the primary.

The Hughes concern then took `` shortcuts '' on the project but got paid anyway, Hemphill said.

) 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 ).

An admirer of Britain's New Liberal philosophy, Hughes campaigned on a platform to improve the state of New York's standard of living by moving it away from laissez-faire tradition and enacting social reforms similar to that which had been enacted in Britain.

As a supporter of progressive policies, Hughes was able to play on the popularity of Theodore Roosevelt and weaken the power of the state's conservative Republican officials.

When two bills were passed to reduce railroad fares, Hughes vetoed them on that grounds that the rates should be set by expert commissioners rather than by elected ones.

Influenced perhaps by his experience as a state governor, Hughes authored a series of decisions that upheld state laws that affected — and, it might be argued, infringed on — congressional authority over interstate commerce.

* 1660 – A woman ( either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall ) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.

During a subsequent meeting on May 15, the league approved a franchise to the Townsend-Seyburn group of Detroit and named Charles A. Hughes as governor.

The telegraph service trained him in the Morse telegraph and also sent him on a four-month course of instruction on the Hughes printing telegraph system, which was later to inspire his own system.

His inventions were based on the printing mechanism from Hughes ' instrument, a distributor invented by Bernard Meyer during 1871, and the five-unit code devised by Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber.

On January 3, 1894 he installed a triplex apparatus on the telegraph between Paris and Bordeaux that had previously been operating with some difficulty on the Hughes telegraph system.

A scene from In a Lonely Place ( 1950 ), directed by Nicholas Ray and based on a novel by Hardboiled # Noir fiction | noir fiction writer Dorothy B. Hughes.

In 1930 Howard Hughes hired Hawks to direct Scarface, a gangster film loosely based on the life of Chicago mobster Al Capone.

After filming was complete on Scarface, Hawks left Hughes to fight the legal battles and returned to First National to fulfill his contract, this time with producer Darryl F. Zanuck.

In 1941 Hawks began work on the Howard Hughes produced ( and later directed ) film The Outlaw, based on the life of Billy the Kid and starring Jane Russell.

Mayhew's work was embraced by and was an influence on the Christian Socialists, such as Thomas Hughes, Charles Kingsley, and F. D. Maurice.