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Secretary of State. Cordell Hull, 61, was picked because he is the ablest tariff man in his party and President Roosevelt proposes to start world trade again by international tariff agreements. Rated high for quiet good sense and personal integrity, Senator Hull's appointment produced the loudest popular applause. Abed with a bad cold in his two-room apartment in Washington's fashionable Carlton Hotel, the new Secretary of State said: "I hope I have the capacity to measure up to the responsibilities." After March 4 he will take a larger suite at the Carlton...
...Mount Van Hoevenberg run was constructed two years ago because the program of winter sports for the Xth Olympiad included bob-sled racing, hitherto practiced only in the Alps. The run cost $250,000, most of which was supplied by New York State. Last week most of the ablest licensed* bob-sled drivers in the U. S. climbed into a steam-heated tractor-truck at the bottom of the slide, had themselves carried up to the top for the start of the North American Championships...
...that the nominees of the council do not necessarily represent the choice of the majority of freshmen, that these nominees are not the ablest and most efficient men of the class but have caught the council's eye by prominence in athletics, previous friendship, or by activities in such sinecure positions as the dormitory committees (which are also completely non-representative groups...
Nine years ago, an energetic, middle-aged spinster who had fought the good fight for women's votes, who was a lieutenant in an ambulance unit but did not get to France, who was a good friend and committee-mate of many of Manhattan's ablest socialites, took up the profession of helping other women make money. Daughter of a well-to-do Kentucky family, since girlhood she had speculated in the stockmarket, at the height of the boom was said to have piled up $6,000,000 profits. As an investment adviser, well-recommended by many...
...chairman ready to make his maiden speech before the House. What he had to say on the Federal Reserve bill (then called the Owen-Glass measure) filled 14 newspaper columns. Thereafter he was silent for 30 months. This year in the Senate, where he is now recognized as the ablest legislator on banking matters, he talked for less than five newspaper columns. His words drawled out of the right corner of his severe mouth, his lips curling up into an expression of chronic ill humor. (Woodrow Wilson once remarked: "Think what Glass would say if he ever used both sides...