Word: ablest
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...delegate, Jimmy Byrnes appointed Major General Frank McCoy, 70, U.S.A. (retired), who in his 41 years of active duty in many countries was sometimes referred to as "the Army's ablest diplomat." McCoy was on the Lytton Commission which tried to do something about the Japs in Manchuria in 1932. He was on the Roberts Commission which made the first investigation of Pearl Harbor, is now president of the Foreign Policy Association...
Ebullient Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, 59, son of the great Thomas Masaryk, is a nonpartisan in domestic politics but a western democrat in outlook. Unassuming Dr. Petr Zenkl, 61, Lord Mayor of Prague, old crony of Dr. Benes, is one of the ablest and most popular of Socialist leaders. Shrewd Antonin Zapotocki, Communist boss of the powerful, well-disciplined central trade unions council (U.R.O.), is in the thick of the nationalization program. Workers committees chosen by the U.R.O. will help the Government to manage confiscated factories, allocate manpower, speed up production...
...help the Government do its big job, the committee recommended the appoint ment of 1) a President's commission on full employment, composed of a "small working body of the ablest men to be found"; and 2) a joint congressional committee on full employment. They would work out a "coordinated Government program for high level employment," lay down the policies to carry...
...went back to Ohio, got his degree). Once, when he was stationed at Self ridge Field, Mich., he almost quit the Air Corps to fly trimotored planes for Henry Ford. But he stuck and studied, and by 1937 he was recognized as one of the Corps's ablest celestial navigators. This led to his transfer to bombardment and the first B-17s. He navigated a flight 600 miles out to sea-a famous and daring feat in 1937-and came out of the overcast over his objective, the Italian liner...
...Empire's youngest fighting field marshal was appointed Governor General of Canada last week. From London and Ottawa came simultaneous announcements of the appointment of 53-year-old Sir Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, K.C.B., C.B., C.S.I., D.S.O., M.C., one of Britain's ablest soldiers...