Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resigned before attaining comparable fame as great educators of New York's best daughters. Last week the Spence trustees announced their next move. To run the new Spence plant and continue the proud Spence tradition they had called upon Miss Valentine Laura Chandor, able proprietress of the foremost remaining small school for New York fashionables...
...display this week in the Lowell House Library are some of the books designed and illustrated by Mr. William A. Dwiggins of Boston, one of the foremost designers of fine books in this country. The most interesting volume is his recently published "Reform of the Currency," which has attracted wide attention and comment. In this book he flays not our fiscal system but the appearance of our bills. At the same time he offers suggestions for redesigning them. Other volumes of note are his Balzae's "Droll Stories," Poes "Tales," a charming little edition in two volumes of Daudet...
...economic situation. Editorial: no award. Reporting: deferred. Cartoon: $500 to John Tinney McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune for "A Wise Economist Asks a Question." Drama: $1,000 to George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin for Of Thee I Sing, obviously the year's foremost Broadway production, to the Pulitzer Board a "biting and true satire on American politics." Novel, History, Biography, Poetry: respectively to Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, General John Joseph Pershing, Henry Fowles Pringle, George Dillon...
...last week. School teachers and certain other staid individuals of regular habits in Dallas, Texas each pay 50? a month to Baylor Hospital. For that premium the hospital takes care of them when they get sick. The unusual significance, apart from the novelty of the plan, is that the foremost doctor on Baylor Hospital staff is Edward Henry Gary, who next May becomes president...
...business, the man who led labor along the path of mild Socialism to the ultimate felicity of two cars in every garage. When the mirage faded, the tendency of the victimized rank and file naturally was to turn to the false leaders, among whom Ford was the foremost. But in reality he was much a victim...