Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part of the centennial celebration of the life and works of the poet Goethe, Gerhart Hauptmann, foremost German playwright, will deliver a lecture in German entitled "Goethe" in Sanders Theatre on Friday, March 4, at 8 o'clock. This is one of the seven occasions upon which Dr. Hauptmann is scheduled to speak during his visit to this country...
...grizzled, 72-year-old Childe Hassam is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the holder of innumerable prizes beginning with a medal from the 1892 Paris Exposition. He may not be the foremost painter in the U. S., but he is certainly the foremost painter of East Hampton, L. I., where he has a fine summer house and a solarium in which he last year offered to wrestle or box with disrespectful commentators. His wealth, position and appearance well qualified Painter Hassam to be the first subject of a series of short one or two reel...
William Warrender Mackenzie, first Baron Amulree of Strathbraan, is Britain's foremost inquirer. He has investigated piece rates, trades disputes, industrial unrest, night baking, strikes, women in in- dustry, the wreck of the R-101 (TIME. Oct. 13, 1930). For two years he has been chairman of the Royal Commission on Licensing Laws investigating the British liquor situation. Last week, his work finished, long-nosed Lord Amulree made his report...
...Almanac was established by the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the World in 1886 because current almanacs, all of which were political, were strongly Republican. Pulitzer wanted something that told Democratic history and news. Gradually it got rid of its political flavor, lived to be the foremost U. S. general almanac...
...Follette hearings popped a surprise when one of the foremost charitarians associated with the Hoover voluntary relief system backed down on the President. He was Allen Tibbals Burns, executive director of the Association of Community Chests & Councils. Director Burns estimated that U. S. community chests would raise only $100,000,000. Dispirited, he said that four times that amount would be needed. Asked if he had any objection to the use of Federal funds for relief, he shook his head. "It doesn't make any difference to the person who gets help...