Word: foremost
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Ignatius Donnelly was known in his own day as the foremost exponent of the Baconian theory (that Bacon wrote Shakespeare). Author of an emphatic volume that traced civilization's origins to a vanished continent (Atlantis: The Antediluvian World), Donnelly would have been a queer bird in any aviary. But he seemed still queerer against his own hard-working background of Niniger, Minn., and his writings were all the more exceptional in view of his political career. Lieutenant governor of Minnesota when he was 28, Donnelly was a Republican Congressman at 32, held that post throughout the Civil...
Died. George Ellery Hale, 69, astronomer credited with founding University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory, Carnegie Institution's Mount Wilson, Palomar Mountain Observatories in California; of heart disease; in Pasadena, Calif. Foremost U. S. authority on the sun, Dr. Hale discovered magnetic fields in sun spots, for his discovery won the British Royal Society's Sir Godfrey Copley medal, of which the first award was to Scientist Benjamin Franklin...
...fiery, bald-headed Lazare Saminsky, a Russo-Manhattanite who not only writes Israelite music, but books and articles expounding its principles and importance. Also prominent in the fold is soft-spoken Joseph Achron. whose smaller works, based on Hebrew themes, have won particular favor with solo recitalists. But foremost among all Zionist-minded composers stands crotchety Swiss-born Ernest Bloch, whose descriptive suite for piano and orchestra. Evocations, was given its first performance last week by the San Francisco Symphony under walrus-faced Pierre Monteux...
...Democracies all over the world considered highly significant the keynote of the Stuttgart congress of Germans abroad, that (1 Nazis must cooperate with all organizations righting democracy, 2 Germans abroad must remain German first and foremost regardless of citizenship under another flag, 3 Germany would soon begin buying only from fascist nations, 4 all fascist nations must prepare for the eventual war against democracy, 5 state funds would be donated to the Rebel cause in Spain and to the cause of Japan in the Orient...
...great many of them were already objecting to other things, including the expense of national marketing. Foremost among the members who thought that Farmers National should be brought to an end was William Horn, a farmer from Ohio who was just as bald as Clarence Huff. Last year Farmer Horn quietly replaced Farmer Huff as president. And last September Farmers National had the bad luck to be short in the market when there was a squeeze in corn (TIME, Oct. 4). Farmers National paid through the nose to cover its short commitments. So the decision of President Horn...