Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little Paris flat last week Mme Dmitri Navachine joined the ranks of Russian widows who say their husbands have been murdered by Joseph Stalin's accomplished Secret Service or Ogpu.* Husband Dmitri Navachine was perhaps the ablest Soviet banker, economist and financier Communism has produced. As Director of the Soviet State Bank's Paris branch for some years, Red Navachine won the confidence of such leading French statesmen as the present Premier Léon Blum and his predecessors, Premiers Herriot & Laval. The Bolshevik banker convinced these statesmen that France could trust Dictator Joseph Stalin and the result...
...bald Princetonian socialite, translator of two Scandinavian novels. Fifteen men and one woman rounded out the Dewey legal staff. The woman, Mrs. Eunice Hunton Carter, a young Negro lawyer and social worker schooled by Smith and Fordham and married to a Harlem dentist, was to prove one of his ablest trackers of prostitution and policy racketeers. Ten crack accountants were picked to search racketeers' bank records and the books of their reluctant victims. Prosecutor Dewey's second prime requisite was the wholehearted backing of top local officials. He got that from the Reform Administration of Mayor Fiorello...
...School, found no portrait of its namesake in the School's Glass Hall, promptly had one painted. Soon afterward the two men met, and ever since Carter Glass and Jesse Jones have been the stanchest of friends, the warmest of mutual admirers. Senator Glass calls Chairman Jones the ablest administrator in Washington. First of this month he moved from Washington's Raleigh Hotel, where he has lived for 22 years, to an apartment on Jesse Jones's floor in the Mayflower. Last week in the Senate the old but still peppery Virginian uprose to refute his junior...
...issue of butter was becoming last week vitally significant. Ministerpräsident General-Oberst Hermann Wilhelm Göring has now made the battle cry of Germany's present rearmament Four-Year Plan: "GUNS INSTEAD OF BUTTER!" Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden last week responded, in one of the ablest speeches he has ever made to the British nation, addressed to a London banquet: "We definitely prefer butter to guns...
...paid his highly efficient actors with rights to share in the picture's profits. The Eternal Mask won a prize, for "originality of theme," at last summer's Venice Exposition. Last week, released in the U. S. with English subtitles, it was hailed by critics as the ablest cinema study of mental aberration since The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari...