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...Cleveland News rejoiced. Gone from its evening field was "the ablest journalist between Chicago and Manhattan." The Plain Dealer was irked. Gone was the comfort of its accidental monopoly, for on the scene had come a man who not only knew how to cater to Cleveland's melting-pot citizenry but who had also an impressive 30-year record as reorganizer and builder on other links in the Scripps-Howard chain and as organizer of the flourishing Newspaper Enterprise Association (feature service). His ability and personality had won him a host of friends in town and through the state...
...There is Norris. He is a Progressive Republican, perhaps the ablest of the insurgent group-now that LaFollette is dead. He keeps the regulars hopping. That dark, short young man over there, immaculately dressed, is young LaFollette who succeeded his father. He is a newcomer in the Senate; so he has not done much...
...supercilious ones were, as usual, uninformed. The Ringling family has been for many years rich, refined. Of the five original brothers who started the circus, John and Charles Ringling were the ablest; their wealth, owing to wise investments in Texas oil, in Florida land, is now immense; the yearly profit of the circus, sturdy as it is, hardly exceeds the income tax of one of them. Wherever the circus stops, a private dining tent, equipped with an English butler, a polished floor, silver and glass and napery, is set up near the big top, for nobody knows when...
Some time ago Representative Ogden L. Mills of New York, suave cosmopolite, one of the ablest financiers in the House, sponsored a bill for returning German property held by the Alien Property Custodian to its owners and compensating American claimants against Germany by a U. S. bond issue to be retired out of German reparations payments (TIME, Dec. 21, CABINET). Last week Representative Garner, the Democratic leader, attacked this bill and Secretary Mellon defended it. The New York Herald Tribune (Republican) promptly attacked the bill, saying that the German property should be sold to pay the American claims...
Senator Bruce made, according to Senator Reed, the ablest presentation of the anti-prohibition case ever submitted by a public...