Word: foremost
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...work's. Sir Austen has also written the foreword, which states the significance of the Crown today, and as a former member of H. M. Government he must certainly speak for a large and representative body of British opinion. "The King at home or abroad is ever first and foremost the servant of the State," says Sir Austen, and his selection of photographs exhibits the King, his consort, and the royal family, performing the duties incumbent upon them in peace and in war. These duties, if Sir Austen's anthology gave the whole story, would seem to be wholly public...
...half ago George Peek (as AAAdministrator). But Mr. Peek departed after a difference of doctrine with Son Wallace's chief guide, philosopher & friend, Rexford Guy Tugwell. Today Undersecretary Tugwell. chiefly occupied with his part as director of national "resettlement" under the Works Relief Act, is not the foremost member of that philosophical ring. Chester C. Davis, whom the elder Wallace originally brought to Washington to work on the McNary-Haugen plan, is now Son Wallace's chief AAA man. Those two and their aides- Publicity Man Alfred D. Stedman. AAA Wheat Director George E. Farrell, Assistant Secretary Milburn...
Died. Dr. Fielding Hudson Garrison, 64 longtime abstractor of medical publications, foremost U. S. historian of Medicine, librarian of Johns Hopkins' Welch Medical Library; after an abdominal operation; in Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore...
Today's foremost Russian scientist is grouchy, white-whiskered, 86-year-old Ivan Petrovich Pavlov whose research on the salivary glands won him a Nobel Prize in Medicine (1904) even before his greater work on the conditioned reflex in dogs. Only Nobelist in the sciences Russia has had for three decades, old Dr. Pavlov does as he pleases, can bark with impunity: "I deplore the destruction of cultural values by illiterate Communists" A government of Communists gently pooh-poohs him, hands him an institute, a pension, endowments...
...door hears a conversation, attributes it to the wrong persons; circumstantial evidence always points to the innocent, thus illustrating Author Green's stanch belief in its fallibility. In some 20 of her 36 books, the hero was a master mind named Ebenezer Gryce. Called the world's foremost detective story writer by Stanley Baldwin, Miss Green was a friend of such addicts as Presidents Roosevelt I and Wilson, Lord Bryce. William Maxwell Evarts. Other books: That Affair Next Door, The Sword of Damocles, The Circular Study, The Filigree Ball, The Amethyst...