Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood Baby Orchestra, ablest of all, played 134 concerts in 1930, earned $130,000 for charity. Impressed by this record and by the chance baby orchestras offer for the wholesale manufacture of miniature instruments, Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. invited Karl Moldrem to bring the Hollywood orchestra to New York. When Moldrem discovered that child labor laws made it necessary to get the permission of every Governor through whose State the children would have to pass, he gave up the venture, decided it would be easier to start another group, one that he and Wurlitzer's hope will start an epidemic...
...greatest banking reputation at almost the precise moment when the U. S. was destined to become the financial centre of the world. But the Elder Morgan had also left his son (who had shown sterling qualities of character, but no genius) a group of partners who were either the ablest U. S. bankers or were credited with being...
George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick, ablest gentleman rider in the U. S., broke his collar bone when his mount fell in the Raceland Steeplechase at Pimlico...
...most famed work has been in chlorophyll, the green stuff of life in plants. Last year Columbia University gave Dr. Conant its Chandler Medal, the American Chemical Society (New York section) its William H. Nichols Medal. Dr. Conant is rated a stern taskmaster -and admired for it-by his ablest students. Chemistry is his whole life. Yet he is no absent-minded professor: decade ago he leaped into the Charles River to save a would-be suicide. His wife, mother of his two children, is Grace Thayer Richards, daughter of the late Chemist Theodore W. Richards who won a Nobel...
...Fred Page Johnson, vice president (finance de- partment) from $22,300 to $13,800. Other salaries fixed by the Court: for vice presidents $6,000 to $18,600, for secretary & treasurer $6,000, for general solicitor $4,800. President Baldwin, rated one of the ablest operating men in railroads, sent to the "Mop" by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. to help straighten out its affairs, still gets $12,750 a year as executive committee chairman of affiliated Denver and Rio Grande, $6,000 as president of Missouri Pacific Trans- portation Co. (bus line). ¶ In Chicago, result of disclosing that he gets...