Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brightest young men in the present British Government is dapper, self-confident Major Leslie Hore-Belisha. With a fine record as Financial Secretary to the Treasury under Neville Chamberlain, he was made Minister of Transport in June when Press and Government began worrying about the alarming number of fatal automobile accidents in Britain. During most of the summer they have averaged about 150 a week...
...simply as a good old friend, Candidate Shaver last week found himself running against eight other Democrats in the primary. Old Dealer Hatfield romped away with the Republican nomination, but Oldster Shaver found rough going, finished a bad second. Polling two votes to Shaver's one, Rush Dew Holt, brightest boy in the State Legislature, took the Democratic nomination, Generalissimo Farley to the contrary notwithstanding...
...Director Borzage's best pictures but it has the qualities of intelligence, honesty and observance which are indelibly part of his style. Douglass Montgomery gives a quiet, unmannered and understanding performance. Margaret Sullavan, whose brilliant acting in Only Yesterday made her Hollywood's brightest prospect since Katherine Hepburn, makes Little Man, What Now her picture. Good shot: Lammchen conversing with Hans while riding on a merry-go-round, one sentence with each circuit...
...particular has contributed much to satisfy the MM. de Wendel and Schneider--to say nothing of Vickers-Armstrong's Sir Herbert Lawrence. Japan has been a highly profitable customer; the firm of Mitsul, allied to both Schneider-Creusot and Vickers-Armstrongs, served its country splendidly when Manchuria was flaming brightest. It also served China excellently. In 1930 China, the world's largest importer of arms, bought almost 40 percent of its war material from Japan. The European armament makers who were supplying this trade found the free port of Hamburg convenient; during one famous week in 1932 there cleared from...
Much larger fry is England where the firm of Vickers-Armstrongs is the brightest star in the armament firmament. The annual bills of Vickers-Armstrongs to nations for armaments purchased quite possibly amount to $100,000,000. For England's powerful position as one of the greatest exporters of the materials of war in the world, the bulk of the credit goes to Vickers-Armstrongs. It makes other things than armaments, true enough; such unwarlike products as sewing machines and golf clubs come from its factories. But its chairman, General the Hon. Sir Herbert Lawrence, G. C. B., onetime Chief...