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Impersonator Carroll, ablest in his metier, has progressed from a sandwiched spot in The Grand Street Follies (brainy, cheaply-produced annual revue) to a local institution...
...contains no Socialist minister it became necessary, last week, for the great Socialist Joseph Paul Boncour, who has been for the past four years Second (Acting) French Delegate to the League of Nations, to resign that post. Thus party loyalty and precedent deprived France and the League of their ablest liaison statesman...
Spokesmen Hughes and Borah were somewhat impeded in the East, towards the finish, by the popular impetus of Governor Smith's homeland campaigning and by the alertness of the Brown Derby's ablest assistant, the New York World. Editorial Writer Walter Lippmann and Governor Smith managed to draw both the Messrs. Hughes and Borah into side-arguments and self-explanations. Mr. Hughes was nettled to such an extent that he talked about "mudslingers," wisecrack artists" and "calumny...
Shaker Giovanni Giuriati is a somewhat insignificant minion of Dictator Mussolini. But Shaker André Tardieu is one of the ablest, most forthright and least blatantly famed statesmen of France. Deftly M. Tardieu turned his complimentary speech to Signer Giuriati into an inoffensive but significant hint. Italy and France might differ, he said, in their political concepts and in the objects of their foreign policy; but surely they ought to unite in more and more projects of commercial benefit, such as this railway. "I hail these strong bands of steel," cried André Tardieu in emotional peroration...
Among the Pundits, one of the ablest, Samuel George Blythe, long of the New York World and the Saturday Evening Post, is now retired in California...