Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...battled last week at The Hague. What he wanted was for twelve nations to reopen the question of how German reparations are to be divided among the creditor powers. That question was closed at Paris (TIME, May 13. et seq.) when the Young plan was drafted by the countries' foremost financiers. In presenting their handiwork to European statesmen. Owen D. Young and his colleagues described it as "an indivisible whole," declared that to be workable it must be adopted in toto as drafted. Last week the declaration of a Morgan, a Young, a Schacht was simply sneered at by Laborite...
...Finns, bony Norwegians, polyglot Swiss, egregious Estonians and 100% Americans-all these to the number of 4,000 assembled last week in Berlin. Greatest of them all were the Americans, 1,000 in number. They were most plentiful because they considered themselves and are considered the world's foremost exponents of the meeting's subject-advertising...
Samuel Insull, foremost public utilitarian of the Midwest,* last week became the dominant textile miller of Maine. Martin Insull, his brother and second-in-command, announced the purchase by Insull-controlled New England Public Service Co. of four Maine cotton plants including Bates Manufacturing Co. at Lewiston...
...announced. If any one had told him six years ago when, a Russian immigrant, he founded his U. S. company, that in 1929 it would bring $2,500,000, he would have believed it. He has never lacked self-confidence. In Tsarist days he was his country's foremost aeronautical engineer. He designed the world's first successful multimotored plane (a four-motor job, 1913), flew the first multimotored seaplane (his own design, 1914), enabled the Russians to make the first heavy air bombardments...
...rain-drenched Highland town of Inverness, the Town Councilors last week offered Freedom-of-the-Burgh to Stanley Baldwin and Ramsay MacDonald "in recognition of the distinction they have brought to Clan Donald." Not widely known is the fact that Britain's two foremost statesmen are distant cousins. Stanley Baldwin's mother was a MacDonald, his ancestors rebellious Jacobites...