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...only reason Mr. Huxman made the race was for a promised Federal appointment. For your information Mr. Huxman is not now and never during this administration has been in need of any appointment. He is an outstanding member of the Bar of Kansas and recognized as one of the ablest lawyers in this State. As for the inference that Mr. Huxman needs a salary, let me assure you that his income at the present time and for more than a decade past greatly exceeds the salary he will receive as Governor of this State, and that his election meant...
...point. His State Department does not stand high even by U. S. standards. Nearly all his Ambassadors are colorless and mediocre. There is not a Page, a Herrick, even a Dawes among them. He has no Under Secretary of State whatever since William Phillips was sent to Rome. The ablest man he had to leave behind him when he sailed to Buenos Aires was Assistant Secretary R. Walton Moore, who, able as he may be, is nearing 80. Yet by force of a simple character Cordell Hull is easily the biggest man in Franklin Roosevelt's Cabinet...
...inhabitants. It had approximately one saloon for every 220 citizens, male and female, infantile, adult and senile. Its facilities for gambling and original sin were on a similar scale. In this situation a 33-year-old lawyer made a difficult decision. He was rated one of the ablest young men at the Buffalo bar, had been assistant district attorney and might well have looked forward to an election as district attorney or even to Congress. But he decided to run for the hack job of Sheriff of Erie County. Doing so meant giving up his legal career for three years...
Probably the ablest, certainly the best known living fresco painter is paunchy Diego Rivera, twice a member of the Communist Party, once expelled for disobedience. Because the owner of the Hotel Reforma, Alberto J. Pani, onetime Mexico's Secretary of Finance, was a friend, Artist Rivera agreed to decorate his hotel for 4,000 pesos, just enough to pay his expenses...
...decade ago, football coaches were famed for "systems." Currently, the ablest coaches are distinguished by lack of systems. Coach Waldorf's chief distinction among U. S. coaches is that his lack of system is the most systematic of all. It consists simply in inventing plays to suit his players instead of choosing players who can execute his plays. This year, Northwestern lacks a crack line plunger and good pass-receiving ends. Consequently, the Northwestern attack is built around plays designed to shake running backs clear on off-tackle thrusts, supplemented by short passes to receiving backs. Like many other...