Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brightest meteor in Canada's political sky, Ontario's blatant, spellbinding Premier Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn, amazed his Province last week and staggered his closest friends. "I will retire from public life," he announced. "There is no chance of my changing my mind." "It can't be so!" cried Ontario's Welfare Minister David Croll* and sprinted for the Premier's office. "I could write columns on the dismay and regret I feel!" gasped Ontario Attorney General Arthur Roebuck, the spearhead of Mitch's onslaughts upon "the power barons" and "the interests." "If there were...
General Motors last week reported nine-month earnings of $114,482,000 against $92,445,000 for the 1934 period. Nine-month sales for the G. M. group totaled 763,406 cars. Brightest members of the General Motors family are Oldsmobile and Pontiac, both selling at about twice their 1934 rate. Neither Buick nor Cadillac has shown much sales increase thus far in 1935 but, in addition to a lower-priced Buick, General Motors is also bringing out a 1936 Cadillac at $1,645-a $700 decrease from the lowest price in the 1935 line...
Billy Rose (né Rosenberg), one of the brightest boys ever graduated from New York City's Public School No. 44, has brooked very few failures in his 34 years. As his biographer, Alva Johnston, has pointed out. Rose has become one of the shrewdest characters in the cut-throat life of the metropolis by sheer quickness of thinking. He won grade-school medals for sprinting by learning to jump the starter's gun without detection. Later Rose's instinct for what pleases the masses made him one of the most successful song writers of the times...
...noisier, the better they love it. The political boss must be colorful, for America loves a showman. The political boss must be clever, for America loves a juggler. Dazzle the common man, for Honest John Public loves to be dazzled, either with gilded promises or gilded coins, and the brightest dazzler wins...
...husband and was expelled from court. She promptly set to work to get back in. Rebuffed by aristocrats who regarded her with loathing, she found an ally in Louis Philippe, then Duc d'Orleans, who wanted the Prince's wealth left to one of his sons. Brightest of Marjorie Bowen's witty characterizations is that of Louis Philippe, son of Egalite who during the revolution had voted for his own cousin's execution. Educated according to the principles of Rousseau, prudent, embarrassingly virtuous, Louis Philippe played a despicable game. Prince de Condé detested...