Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal's political machine to whip reluctant Senators into line, the persuasion of Franklin Roosevelt's irresistible tongue to swing public opinion, realized one thing which they had failed to take into account: the ability of nine old men immured in a neoclassic temple to outmaneuver the ablest politician in the U. S. Yet by accident or design the Supreme Court had twice done...
...field which included Gene Sarazen, Tony Manero, Harry Cooper, Craig Wood, Henry Picard and most of the other ablest professionals, only six drives out of ; total of 123 went beyond 300 yd. All three of Sam Snead's were in the six. His shorter drives were 304 yd. 31 in., 302 yd 7 in. In addition to his prize for the longest single drive, he got $150 for the best total distance - 920 yd. 19 in. Snead weighs 170 lb., uses a full swing and beautifully balanced body shift, usually hits a low, long-rolling ball with a slight...
Last fortnight Assistant Attorney General Jackson, one of the nation's ablest trial lawyers, went to Pittsburgh and did his persuasive best to make Judge Gibson change his mind. He denied that the charges of 1912 and 1937 were identical. In 1912, he declared, the Government had only sought to restrain Aluminum Co. from, certain monopolistic practices; now it was trying to dissolve the company. Since 1912 the company had expanded and extended its control of the market, establishing Aluminum Ltd. of Canada "to prevent competition from abroad." The consent decree of 1912 was still in effect, returned Alcoa...
...ablest baseballers who ever lived, famed Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb is now one of the world's richest retired athletes. His fortune consists mostly of fat Coca-Cola holdings which he bought long ago on advice from his hunting crony, Coca-Cola's President Bob Woodruff. When he quit professional baseball in 1928, Cobb toured Europe with his wife and four of their five children, went to Scotland for a season's shooting, returned to his 10,000-acre farm in his native Georgia. Five years ago, he bought a house at Atherton, Calif., 30 miles south...
...story from which Author Jacques Deval (Tovarich) adapted the screen play, acts his fat part with the enthusiasm it deserves, sets the pace for the rest of a cast of which each member is performing a specialty in which he is tops. Good shot: Adolphe Menjou, Hollywood's ablest exponent of the art of playing maitre d' hotel since The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926), introducing a dish of wild strawberries, brought from Algeria by special plane...