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Word: abler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gregory L. Smith for 54 years graced the Alabama Bar and for over 40 years was recognized as not only the leader of the Bar in his own State, but was generally regarded throughout the South as one of the most outstanding lawyers of the time. No abler lawyer or nobler man ever lived than Mr. Gregory L. Smith. . . . I was his secretary for many years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Able Allen | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...General Motors, he took no part. He left the company with a block of stock which would soon have made him an exceedingly rich man. But David Buick seemed to have no affinity for money. He could not make it himself and he was not content to let abler business men make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: David Buick | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Ability-Able man though Governor Smith may be, the people considered Herbert Hoover an abler, on his record as a national executive, to meet the country's problems of Farm Relief, Waterways, Cooperation with Business, the Tariff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Thirty-First | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

President Calles, it is safe to say, would not have signed the new regulations, last week, except for the fact that the U. S. now has in Mexico City a new and abler-than-usual Ambassador, Dwight Whitney Morrow, onetime Morgan partner. By large business methods and with a Morgan-sized grasp of essentials, Mr. Morrow has, in four months, cut the oil snarl which has embittered the U. S. and Mexico for a full decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Snarl Cut | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

From quarters close to Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, than whom Alfred Emanuel Smith has few abler or more intimate lieutenants in his campaign for the Democratic nomination, came a report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Inventory | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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