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...boss of the Four-Year Plan that Göring has best shown his administrative ability. He ordered that Germany be made self-sufficient and let his subordinates figure out how. He has put the ablest men obtainable into his Economics Ministry, lets them work out plans which he either accepts or discards. For a while he used Dr. Schacht as idea man, then replaced him with the scarcely more radical Dr. Walther Funk. To replace Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht as international salesman of German economy was more difficult, but Göring found his man in the persuasive...
Since 1920 Willmott Lewis has been correspondent for the London Times in Washington. Knighted by his King nine years ago, he is well known to U.S. audiences as a lecturer on foreign affairs, is recognized by Washington newsmen as about the ablest correspondent sending U. S. news to Europe...
...town, is once more to be congratulated upon the quality and interest embodied in one of its presentations. Its current exhibit of Paul Klee's paintings deserves the special attention of anyone interested in the problems characteristic of contemporary Continental art. Klee is considered by many to be the ablest exponent of recent German painting...
Take away Father Coughlin's microphone and Social Justice and there would be little left but a parish priest. But Monsignor Sheen is much more than a pulpiteer: he is one of the Church's ablest converters. Much in demand for instructing converts, he spends ten hours a week at this quiet, heart-&-soul job. Some of his more notable converts: the late Hoovercrat Horace A. Mann and his wife, the late Heywood Broun, whom Monsignor Sheen baptized, gave last rites to and buried (TIME, Jan. 1). Monsignor Sheen is now preparing Henry Ford's grandson Henry...
Author Cooke is a famed social engineer. He has done many a chore of planning for the New Deal, has also served Business as a consultant in Scientific Management (whose original high priest was the late Frederick W. Taylor). Co-Author Murray, whom many rate the ablest of U. S. Labor's leaders-and certainly one of its highest-paid ($18,000 a year)-is vice president of United Mine Workers and of C. I. 0., chairman of the thriving Steel Workers Organizing Committee...