Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler swallowed his artistic conscience or whether Nazi Germany suddenly decided that it could dispense with him no longer, no one was willing to say last week. However the reconciliation came about, Germany's ablest musicmaker was back on the podium, leading the Berlin Philharmonic for an audience that roared its welcome for 25 minutes...
According to Mr. Atterbury, the new head of the self-styled Standard Railroad of the World is "unquestionably the ablest railroad executive in the country." Martin Withington Clement, born 53 years ago in Sunbury, Pa., is one of the youngest presidents Pennsy ever had. He started with the road as a rodman in 1901 after graduating from Trinity College, trod the traditional path of railroad promotion until 1926 when he was made vice president in charge of operations. At that time and for years afterwards Mr. Atterbury's logical successor appeared to be his famed Vice President Elisha...
...Detroit's Rev. Charles E. Coughlin has increasingly proven that, with the possible exception of Huey P. Long, he is the ablest and most inflammatory rabble-rouser in the U. S., many a sober citizen has wondered how long his thoroughly autocratic Church would permit the radio priest to continue stirring up unchurchly controversy. Their wonder grew as Boston's outspoken old William Henry Cardinal O'Connell repeatedly flayed Father Coughlin for his "demagogic talk," "hysterical harangues," "humbugging," "pure sham'' and Father Coughlin cracked back that for 40 years the Cardinal had been notorious...
Katherine Rawls is 17, 107 lb., with a boyish face, short kinky hair, the physique of a nervous minnow. Brought up in Miami, she was a prodigy at 7, a national champion at 13 and is now considered the ablest all-around female swimmer in the U. S. Last year "Minnow" Rawls was A. A. U. low-board diving champion. This year she decided not to defend her diving championship, to try for a clean sweep in four swimming events, the most any contestant is allowed to enter. The three she won were 100-yd. freestyle, 300-yd. medley...
Since Helene Madison retired from amateur competition in 1932, Lenore Kight has been the ablest U. S. female practitioner of that super-development of the old-fashioned "crawl" which modern swimmers loosely describe as "free-style." Brunette, 22, she is a shade less effective than her rivals photographically, a shade faster than any of them in the water. She learned to swim at the athletic club of the Carnegie Library of Homestead, Pa., where famed Jack Scarry is the swimming coach. Last week Lenore Kight demonstrated more firmly than ever her current eminence in her specialty. She won free-style...