Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, Philip Snowden, Socialist, most unpopular member of the Cabinet. Is foremost proponent of Capital Levy and has a "crabbed, gloomy nature...
PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE Sidney Webb, Laborite, who with his wife, Beatrice, is one of the foremost publicists on Laborite Socialism and sociology. A co-founder of the London School of Economics...
...between the Scylla of dilettantism and the Charybdis of scornful indifference into its present healthy state. And the achievement was so notable that its influence spread like ripples on water through the whole educational system of the country. But education has not been all. He has made himself the foremost exponent of the Open Shop, he has written books, he has been of influence upon public opinion in many state questions. It is difficult to call to mind any problem in the scale of human relations in which he has not interested himself and in so doing become a leader...
...President Eliot. Instead of retiring at sixty into a sommolent old age, he has to this very day kept as intellectually active as any youth--and he has kept so by the catholicity and vigor of his interests. In this he has made himself a great name--our foremost example of the American Citizen. And President Eliot is to receive such signal recognition on March 20. He deserves all praises and honor not only from Harvard men but from the whole country...
...foremost publicity experts in the country, and an advisor in public relations to the Pennsylvania railroad and many other large business interests, will spend a week, from February 6 until February 9, giving lectured and presenting problems to classes in the Business School, it was announced yesterday...