Word: ablest
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Died. Thomas George Lee, 56. president of Armour & Co. since 1931; of intestinal ailments following an appendectomy; in Chicago. A stenographer in 1895, he worked for Armour in Manhattan and Philadelphia, rose steadily, became known as one of the packing industry's ablest authorities. Succeeding Frank Edson White in 1931, he reduced Armour's operating costs by $45,000,000 (35%), wiped out $6,500,000 in annual carrying charges...
...great mathematical logicians in the world. His Principles oj Quantum Mechanics is a monument of human cerebration. That book is utterly incomprehensible to ordinary men who had never heard of its author until Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac won a Nobel Prize last year. Only a few of the ablest scholar-scientists can follow the chain of symbolic reasoning in Principles of Quantum Mechanics, and among them none is more articulate, more authoritative, more sensible than Sir James Hopwood Jeans, president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Like a modern St. Paul, Sir James has taken it upon...
...converging some 30 operatives on the scene of the crime. From Washington, Assistant Director Harold Nathan flew to Louisville to co-ordinate the search. Inspector H. H. Clegg sped from Washington to take care of the Nashville end of the investigation. From Chicago hurried one of the littlest and ablest crook snatchers in the service-Melvin Purvis. Just past 30, Bureau Chief Purvis, University of South Carolina Law School graduate, helped with the Federal investigation of the Insull collapse, rounded up Verne Sankey and the Touhy gang, set the Chicago trap that resulted in the killing of Desperado John Dillinger...
...crime. Even information from one field man to another is cleared through the central Washington office. The moment Mrs. Stoll was released, the complete, authoritative story on the kidnapping went out from Washington. Attorney General Cummings took on last August as his special assistant one of the ablest and most reliable of Washington correspondents, Henry Suydam, long with the Brooklyn Eagle...
...anonymity of desk work often enough to produce articles for Harper's, American Mercury, Forum and The New Yorker, a best-selling book (The Night Club Era ) and to pose for a full-page testimonial for Gruen watches in the Satevepost. He is reputed one of the ablest news executives in the land, although he will be only 36 this week. Last week he established himself as a prophet of his profession with a new book. City Editor.* City Editor is salty, rambling shoptalk and third-highball-philosophy of what the author calls "the greatest business on earth...