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...made the 57-hour trip to the Baltic, obtained a British pilot's license, became a regular member of her crew. Previously he had attended at her modeling, her building. His training completed by study of the Zeppelin in Germany, Lansdowne was regarded as one of the half-dozen ablest lighter-than-air commanders in the world...
Jones' spectacular play began with his adolescence. He and his young companion, Perry Adair, were astonishing the senior members of Druid Hills (Atlanta) where they both wore short trousers even to parties. Jones was but 14 when he led a field of the country's ablest for half a qualifying round at the Merion Cricket Club (Philadelphia). The beating he gave Gardner at Oakmont three years later was payment for a budnipping that occurred in the third round of that Merion affair. Francis Ouimet administered the budnipping at the Engineers' Club (Roslyn, L. I.) in 1920, Willie Hunter...
...called upon him to become Chairman of the Red Cross War Council, where he displayed his financial abilities by raising more than $100,000,000 in one campaign. The world of finance generally agrees that at the time of his death in June, 1922, H. P. Davison was the ablest partner in the Morgan firm...
...producing companies have repudiated the wage agreement, including 1) the Consolidated Company in which John Davison Rockefeller Jr., "an estimable man with fine traits, religious and God-fearing," is a large stockholder, 2) the Pittsburgh Coal Co., "one of whose most influential stockholders is Andrew W. Mellon . . . perhaps the ablest Secretary [of the Treasury] since Alexander Hamilton, a man with admirable traits"; 3) the Bethlehem Mines Corporation, owned by the Bethlehem Steel Co., "of which Charles M. Schwab, a great American, is a dominant factor...
...approaching the problem step by step. The pros and cons of gas in warfare were debated. The argument against gas can be put in one word: "Inhumane." The argument for gas, although not so well known, has been ably presented. Prof. J. B. S. Haldane is one of the ablest exponents of this viewpoint...