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...York. Because he had shown himself an even abler New York vote-getter than Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, Herbert Henry Lehman, who urgently desired to return to his banking business, was drafted by the Democratic National Convention and the President himself to run for a third term as Governor. That sacrifice was proved wholly unnecessary when Governor Lehman, though winning handily, ran over 300,000 votes behind his nation-sweeping White House friend...
...catch on, to kindle the nation's enthusiasm. After the strong beginning supplied by his pre-convention buildup, his bold convention telegram and his overwhelming nomination. Nominee Landon's first campaign tour had been accompanied by a Republican slump. Meanwhile John Hamilton and Frank Knox, both abler orators than the nominee, had been drumming into the country's head the idea that Republicans planned to throw out the New Deal bag & baggage, the baby with the bath. Also meanwhile, Franklin Roosevelt, resting the New Deal's case on its popular benefits, its aspirations and the undeniable...
...other words, assembling a great mass of observed facts and stirring them around until a connecting theory emerges does not work. Speculation and intuition are supremely necessary. What sets Dr. Einstein apart is the quality of his intuition. There have been abler mathematicians than he. But from a very few observations-the constancy of light's speed in space and the equivalence of gravitational mass and inertia-he divined how the cosmos was made. He did not, like Newton, invent mathematics to describe it but borrowed the mathematics of Riemann, Fitzgerald, Lorentz and Minkowski...
...abler musician than most opera singers, she has a mother who now dabbles in concert management in New York, a sister who teaches singing, a husband, Frank Chapman Jr., son of the American Museum of Natural History's famed ornithologist, who took up singing after he resigned from the editorial staff of Doubleday, Doran, met Gladys Swarthout in an opera house at Florence. She was born on Christmas day in 1904, likes to cook kidneys en brochette, plays golf, skis. Her East End Avenue apartment is distinguished by pearl-grey walls, a tea service presented to Mr. Chapman...
Expert Inquisition. The first thing that Senator Black proceeded to prove was that he was an abler headlinemaker than his House rival. Mr. Hopson before any committee is a witness expert at avoiding damaging admissions, at amplifying his answers into attacks upon his opponents. Nonetheless, Senator Black promptly began producing from his lips facts worthy of headlines at least bigger than those that Representative O'Connor had been able to evoke...