Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Martineau, along came Governor John S. Fisher of Pennsylvania, to extend invitations for this and that and to judge for himself of Mr. Coolidge's political intentions. When he left he was saying: "Hughes . .. Hoover . . . Dawes . . . Lowden." ¶ The President kept himself busy announcing major appointments. First and foremost was his new Ambassador to Mexico, Dwight W. Morrow of Manhattan (see The Cabinet). Next, Roy Archibald Young of Minneapolis was designated a member of the Federal Reserve Board, to succeed Daniel Richard Crissinger (resigned) as governor of the Board as soon as confirmed in membership. To fill vacancies...
...Student Prince has had other incarnations. First it was the play Old Heidelberg, in which Richard Mansfield appeared; then an operetta, produced by the Shuberts. Now it is a film in which Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer are directed by Ernst Lubitsch, whom most people recognize as the foremost master of cinema comedy and point to as a particularly baffling example of how a man can be light and Teutonic at the same time. It is the atmosphere of old Heidelberg that interests him mainly. The story is spread thin-being nothing more unusual than the one about the princeling...
Turning against Rome a face that looks like a vise with two deep sockets for eyes, Louis Cardinal Billot, 81-year-old Frenchman, a foremost theologian, renounced his red hat and repaired last week to France to enter a monastery as plain Father Billot. The alleged cause of his resig nation was the Pope's placing Leon Daudet's newspaper L'Action Francaise on the Index Expurgatorius (thus banning it at once from all Roman Catholic homes). His Holiness' policy was based on the conviction that the wily, obstreperous editors of L'Action were using...
...York City, the Jews number about a third of the general population and yet there is not one statue dedicated to an American Jew to symbolize his and his people's contribution." Previous popular contests of the Jewish Tribune decided "the twelve outstanding Jews of America," "the twelve foremost Jews of the World," "the six foremost Jewish women of America," "the ten Americans who have done the most to promote good will and better understanding between the Jews and the non-Jews...
Government Foremost in New Plan...