Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rachel Kollock McDowell may be what TIME calls her, "The ablest religious editor of any U. S. newspaper," but certainly she is not devoutly Presbyterian. Of herself she says: "my Presbyterianism seems just as much a part of me as my arms or my eyes or my ears...
...Until Aug 3 this year he won only half his games then took nine out of his next eleven. Furthermore, in Mickey Cochrane the Tigers possess not only the best catcher in either league but one who is apparently on his way to proving himself the ablest major-league manager since the late John McGraw. In keeping with his disbelief minthe baseball taboo against mentioning a pennant before winning it, Cochrane made his speech in August: "Last year we had the jitters because only two of us-Goose Goslin and I ... had ever played in a World Series before. This...
Since his western trip was to be in the nature of a political reconoissance for the 1936 campaign, the President summoned to his mother's house last week some of his ablest advisers. Among those to pull up chairs in the Presidential study at Hyde Park were Postmaster General Farley, Democratic Pressagent Charles Michelson, Publisher Julius David Stern of Philadelphia, and Charles C. Pettijohn. the cinema lawyer who last year directed California's Stop-Sinclair movement...
...apoplexy induced by arteriosclerosis; in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Son of a lawyer who turned Presbyterian preacher, young William, with a degree from Yale, started in the Pennsylvania's Altoona shops at 5¢ an hour. In 1917 he went to France when Pershing cabled Secretary Baker to send him "the ablest railroad man in the U. S.," was commissioned Brigadier General (admiring soldiers called him "General Attaboy"), set up a rail transport system that won him decorations from many an Allied government. An able handler and picker of men, he shrewdly chose to cooperate with or absorb air and bus lines...
...British team campaigning on Long Island has been the major polo interest of the season, the doings of young Pete Bostwick on and off the field have run a close second. Last year, Bostwick, whose diminutive size had aided him to become generally rated the world's ablest amateur jockey, decided to give up racing in favor of a game which his other interests had kept him too busy to play seriously since he was 10. Promptly and characteristically, he concluded that if polo was good enough for him to play, it was good enough for more people...