Word: brightest
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Jackson. To take Mr. Wideman's place, Attorney General Cummings snaffled one of the brightest of the New Deal's young lawyers from the Treasury Department: Robert Houghwout Jackson, the Bureau of Internal Revenue's Assistant General Counsel. Rated the No. 1 prosecutor of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, this Jamestown, N. Y. attorney had personal charge of the Government's attempt to collect $3,000,000 of additional taxes from Andrew William Mellon (TIME, April 15 et ante...
Rivers of ink spurted from Geneva last week as into action sprang charming Mme Geneviève Tabouis, brightest spirit among that sector of correspondents who feel that they can mold a better world by twisting every story to the advantage of the League of Nations. They felt with an honest, apostolic zeal that they must kill "The Deal" by which Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin of Great Britain and Premier Pierre Laval of France had undertaken to make peace between Italy and Ethiopia at the latter's expense. Before the terms were officially known Mme Tabouis of Paris...
...commodity roads are supposed to be especially vulnerable, but in the last five years the Southern bituminous carriers have been the brightest stars in the dark railroad sky. Norfolk & Western is the highest-priced active rail on the New York stock exchange, pays $8 in dividends exclusive of extras, sells at $215 per share. Chesapeake & Ohio not only maintained its boomtime rate throughout Depression, but boosted it. Virginian skipped common payment for a while (though it is now on a $4 basis), quickly made up its one lapse on the preferred. And it never failed to cover interest charges...
...dies from the prick of a poisoned nail in his saddle. Commissar Stanislas Redens of the Ogpu Moscow Section. Commissar Leonid Zakovsky of the Ogpu Leningrad Section. Vsevolod Balitsky of the Ogpu Ukranian Section. Decidedly able, Commissar-General Yagoda is credited with having devised perhaps the Ogpu's brightest idea from the viewpoint of entrenching the Ogpu as a permanent and self-supporting organ of the State. The idea: to embark on major Soviet Five-Year-Plan building projects with Ogpu prisoners for workers and the Ogpu Terror to goad them to superhuman efforts in completing the project...
Well satisfied on the whole with Ethiopia's brightest war week thus far, Emperor Haile Selassie, whom the knitting and poker-playing correspondents now call "Little Charlie" among themselves, flew to Harar on the Southern Front...