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...single-place fighter for the Navy; XP-16, two-place pursuit for the Army; XO-31, a light observation plane for the Navy. In an official test last week a few hours after the stock deal was completed, Vice President Joyce, who is one of the ablest demonstrators in the business, put the XFJ-1 into-and easily brought it out of -a spectacular 12,000-ft. power dive. Navy specifications also demand that the ship maintain a speed greater than 180 m. p. h. at 6,000 ft. altitude...
...only the day before, a new petition had charged that this salary exceeded $1,000,000 annually, "for which," the petition added, "he renders no adequate service or consideration." Never before had such things been said of the man whom Colyumist Arthur Brisbane immediately characterized as "one of the ablest steel men living...
...Joseph Ridgway ("Old Joe") Grundy to his Bristol yarn mills, created a vacancy in President Hoover's Cabinet, smashed the hopes of Senator-reject William Scott Vare of becoming G. O. P. boss of the State, registered their opinion on Prohibition, recalled to high office one of their ablest and most distinguished citizens...
...Hayes was not legally elected in 1876, that Democratic Candidate Samuel J. Tilden was the majority's choice. The electoral vote was 185 to 184. But Hayes' election, whether or not strictly legal, gave the U. S. four years of good government. Tilden was "one of the ablest public men in the country, if not the ablest," but Hayes was "one of the best Presidents the U. S. has ever had." Says Author Eckenrode: a Democrat in the White House so soon after the Civil War might well have caused more bloodshed. Rutherford Hayes was born in Delaware...
...Soong, head of the great Shanghai banking house of Soong, finance minister in Chiang's government, graduate of Harvard, is unquestionably the ablest, most potent, most public-spirited Chinese financier...