Word: ablest
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Safety First is the policy of the Richest Man, and in Hyderabad this continued to mean last week the flourishing reign of probably the ablest native government in India, with its key statesman Finance Minister the Nawab Sir Akbar Nazarally Hydari. During the cycle of Depression his famed "Three-Year Budgets'' have always balanced with a surplus and Hyderabad taxes have not been raised. Sir Akbar's system is to have an annual accounting of each Government Department provisionally, but to carry forward to a so-called "Grand Accounting" only every three years. He will close...
Like most critics, Husband Stieglitz felt that the ablest picture in last week's show was Slimmer Days, showing a deer's skull floating in the sky above a scattering of bright field flowers, then beneath, the misty mountains of New Mexico...
...favor of their associates' ambition to paint the New York life that surrounded them, Artists Arthur B. Davies and Maurice Prendergast never painted that sort of picture. They were thus omitted from last week's show and their places taken by three of Robert Henri's ablest pupils : Bellows, Glenn Coleman, Guy Pène Dubois...
...there are or have been Negro municipal judges in Chicago, New York City and the District of Columbia, no Negro has ever before sat on the Federal bench. No mere political gesture to colored constituents was this appointment, however, for William Hastie, Knoxville born, is rated one of the ablest Negro lawyers in the U. S. He was graduated from Amherst magna cum laude, went to Harvard Law School and became one of Felix Frankfurter's "Hot Dog Boys." He and his .cousin Charles H. Houston are the only two Negroes ever to have served on the editorial board...
...have been Root, whom Theodore Roosevelt called "the greatest man who has appeared in the public life of any country in my time." Instead. Corporation Lawyer Root continued as Trustbuster Roosevelt's Secretary of War and, after John Hay died, as his Secretary of State, one of the ablest the U. S. has ever had, who 30 years before Cordell Hull and Franklin Roosevelt toured South America proclaiming: "We neither claim nor desire any rights or privileges or powers that we do not freely concede to any American Republic." But Elihu Root was a man of mind...