Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Attorney General of Massachusetts has recently given a new interpretation of an old law which prevents a large number of graduates of the foremost medical schools in the country, among them Harvard, from taking the examinations to practice medicine in this State. Under this new ruling only three of the hundred or so applicants will be allowed to take the annual March examination, and these three men are graduates of a small college in Missouri. The reason for this peculiar state of affairs is that the law requires candidates to complete a four-year course of thirty-six weeks each...
Cabinetmaking is easier in October than in February. During that interval the President-elect learned that he could not crook his finger and get the ready services of his party's first & foremost. Much mentioned before election but not to be found on last week's slate were the national names of Bernard Mannes Baruch, Owen D. Young, Newton Diehl Baker, Albert Cabell Ritchie, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Carter Glass. Even his two ranking Cabinet officers Mr. Roosevelt had to "draft" (his own word) into Federal service...
...agenda has been prepared by experts whose chairman was the World Bank's nominee and delegate, Dr. Leonard J. A. Trip, President of the Netherlands Bank. Unquestionably the world's central banks will employ the mechanism of the World Bank in any effort made to solve the foremost problem posed in the agenda: "Restoration of an effective international monetary standard to which the countries which have abandoned the gold standard can wisely adhere...
Died. Count Albert Apponyi, 86, Hungary's Grand Old Man and No. 1 League of Nations delegate; of pneumonia; in Geneva. A 6 ft.-6 in., spadebearded member of one of the foremost and oldest Magyar families (founded 1235), he long bickered against Habsburg absolutism, favored broadened suffrage. But in 1922 he declared for Habsburg's Otto as the "uncrowned" king of Hungary...
PRESIDENT LINCOLN-William E. Barton-Bobbs-Merrill (two vols. $7.50). Last work of a foremost Lincoln authority...