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...nine-day wonder to the G. 0. P. directorate as well, for he was the only Republican elected to an office higher than Representative in both the New Deal landslides of 1932 and 1934. On the record, Governor Landon might claim to be currently the Party's ablest vote-getter. Governor Landon's chief distinction, that of being a Great Economizer, has already been developed into a legend of frugality by his friends. His miserly appearance, his proclivity for backing the athletic teams of his Alma Mater, the State University, with nickel bets, have helped...
...accident was it that Italy's third claw was put in charge of her ablest colonial general. General Rodolfo Grazi-ani, hard bitten veteran of many a Libyan skirmish, was plowing north last week from Italian Somaliland at the head of mixed Italian and colonial troops. The terrain he will have to cross is a shade easier than that facing the other two armies, but the distance to his base, Mogadishu on the Indian Ocean, is almost twice as long, the difficulties of water, food and supplies almost twice as great. It is against him that Ethiopians have their...
...Governor of Italian Somaliland, and generally considered Italy's ablest colonial fighter, General Graziani thence leads the Fascist legions...
Rachel Kollock McDowell may be what TIME calls her, "The ablest religious editor of any U. S. newspaper," but certainly she is not devoutly Presbyterian. Of herself she says: "my Presbyterianism seems just as much a part of me as my arms or my eyes or my ears...
...Until Aug 3 this year he won only half his games then took nine out of his next eleven. Furthermore, in Mickey Cochrane the Tigers possess not only the best catcher in either league but one who is apparently on his way to proving himself the ablest major-league manager since the late John McGraw. In keeping with his disbelief minthe baseball taboo against mentioning a pennant before winning it, Cochrane made his speech in August: "Last year we had the jitters because only two of us-Goose Goslin and I ... had ever played in a World Series before. This...