Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 6,000,000 morning and evening papers white-haired, drab-mustached Sir Ernest Willoughby Petter's picture promptly appeared. Said the Rothermere Daily Mail: "Sir Ernest Petter, one of the country's foremost business men, threw a bombshell into official Conservative circles last night...
Udet. Captains Ernst Udet and Gunther Plueschow shared the honor of being Germany's foremost airmen. Last month Capt. Plueschow died in a crash in South America (TIME, Feb. 9). Last week Germany came very close to losing her other idol. Having completed a motion picture job in Tanganyika, Africa, Capt. Udet headed back to Europe. Approaching Khartoum he was forced down in the miasmal Sudanese swamps. Luck was with him; he found and made a landing on one of the swamps' few patches of hard ground. There, days later, Capt. Campbell Black found him, was able to land beside...
...there was formed the Boston banking firm of Kidder, Peabody & Co. By the turn of the century it had marched into the foremost rank of private banks. Yet during the last few years sorry things have happened to Kidder, Peabody & Co. In August 1929, William Endicott, who had entered the firm after emerging from Harvard in 1887, resigned. On Jan. 2. 1930, the senior partner, Frank G. Webster, died suddenly at the age of 89. Five days later the mainspring of the firm, Robert Winsor. died. Within a year Wall Street was whispering black news about Kidder, Peabody...
...best known painter in the exhibition is probably George Russell. A. E. who is represented by two oil paintings. Foremost among the other Irish painters are John Keating, and Jack Yeats, brother of the poet...
...Rinehart has had unusual experiences, has made a fortune, has been hailed as foremost U. S. woman writer, but what she seems to feel is her chief claim to fame is her dual role as career-woman and wife-&-mother "that odd combination of private anxiety and public career which has been my life." She was born in Pitts-burgh in 1876, into a family in moderate circumstances. When she was 17 she decided to be a nurse, and entered a Pittsburgh hospital through the good graces of one of its internes, Dr. Stanley Marshall Rinehart. Before she finished...