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...United Lutherans re-elected as president for the eighth term their ablest man, Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel, 62, tall, active, Vandyke-bearded Manhattanite, whose many jobs caused him some years ago to give up the pastorate of the influential Church of Our Saviour's Atonement which he founded...
...planning to make conditions as encouraging as possible for the unusually brilliant scholar the University is putting emphasis in the right place. Mr. Wernaer's proposal to induce the ablest men to choose scholarship as a career by creating a permanent position for them in the university structure is admirable. The Society of Fellows, however, is something definitely worthwhile for itself, and if endowment for the Society is available within a year or two, its establishment need not be delayed until the time, probably distant, when something like Mr. Wernaer's Institute of Research can be founded...
Preacher Shuler's primary votes were 197,624 Republican, 85,000 Democratic, 3,600 Prohibition. In 1928 the Prohibition nominee got 92,106 votes. That year more than a million and a half votes were cast in the Senate election. Ablest observers predict that by no means all the Republicans and Democrats who supported Preacher Shuler in the primary will vote for him in the election, that his chance of a winning plurality is distinctly outside...
Next day President de Valera, who of course spoke English, "handled the spiny and involved debate with a quiet efficiency that marked him as one of the ablest presiding officers the Council has ever had," according to the New York Times's able Clarence K. Streit...
...George Lott Jr. & Frank Shields and the defending champions, John Van Ryn & Wilmer Allison. It often happens, despite careful seeding, that the best match in a national tournament comes in the semi-finals and it happened last week, when Van Ryn & Allison played Lott & Shields. Lott is undoubtedly the ablest doubles player in the U. S. Van Ryn & Allison have been teamed so long that their games mesh perfectly. They ran out the first set easily at 6-3. Then Lott, who has won the doubles title three times (with John Hennessey, 1928; with John Doeg, 1929-30), began...