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Viscount Rothermere redoubled his defense of the Passfield Declaration. Said his Daily Mail: "Some of the ablest and wisest Jews in England regarded the creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine for their co-religionists as a mischievous project. Even the New York Times, which is owned by Adolph Ochs, a Jew, only last week expressed opposition to the Balfour Declaration and the Zionist scheme...
...recall ever hearing a professor quick-named "high pockets", but many of Harvard's best and ablest men have been below even medium stature. As I look at it, the high tablers have approximated equality to an exquisite degree. Harrison Brown
...Union while serving as an assistant at Madison Avenue Baptist Church to Pastor George C. Lorimer (father of Editor George Horace Lorimer of Saturday Evening Post). Then, married, he took up his first pastorate in Montclair, N. J., prosperous-to-affluent suburb, which would have no youth but the ablest. For eleven years the man and his fame developed slowly, irre- sistibly. The man grew by meeting real issues. He flayed cardplaying (bridge). He was alarmed by this new thing called movies, He flayed parents who let "boys 12 years old send flowers to little girls and go in carriages...
...under 35, and one of the four or five ablest of your surrounding 100 fellow-citizens, this book is about and for you. Otherwise not. says the author. The Psychology of Achievement should be a bestseller...
...ablest and most prosperous flea-trainers in the world is Jean Rochet of France. Last week in Paris he was negotiating with U. S. immigration and quarantine authorities for permission to take his educated fleas on a U. S. tour. In the course of telling his troubles to a U. S. newsgatherer, he made a pronouncement surprising to laymen: "I prefer the male flea, because he is more conscientious." Professor William Heckler, owner of Manhattan's largest flea-circus, disagrees with Jean Rochet. Professor Heckler uses mostly females in his acts. He finds that the male flea, which...