Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zukor rode with Mrs. Zukor beamingly beneath a triumphal arch, down a quaint main street, finally reached the synagog. "Welcome, welcome, Mr. Zukor," cried the Mayor of Ricse, and added somewhat redundantly, "We hail you as the greatest citizen of our village!" ( He is in fact the world's foremost cinema executive, president of Paramount-Famous-Lasky...
...Iceland," famed Herra Jónas Jónsson, boss politician, Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastics, is a lunatic, suggested that if his skill and that of his associates is not sufficient to diagnose Herra Jónsson as mad, then by all means let the world's foremost psychiatric authorities be summoned to Reykjavik...
With Congress in a turmoil over a new outburst of its perennial tariff war, the latest news from the front is the petition, originated by Professor Taussig, and signed by over a thousand of the foremost economists protesting against the Hawley-Smoot Bill. Like most such protests, this petition will probably be pigeonholed while the Senator from Massachusetts, with an eye to a future election, pleads for a raise of the tariff on textiles or the Senator from Idaho thinks that his constituents would profit by further government protection of the wool market...
Plantagenet itself is not so great a name in Britain now as Isaacs. When Rufus Daniel Isaacs retired, upon receiving his present rank of Marquess of Reading (TIME, May 3, 1926), he had been Viceroy of India and Lord Chief Justice of England. He ranks today as the foremost Liberal "elder statesman." And last week the Empire was again made acutely Isaacs-conscious. In Melbourne, Australia, that vigorous, strong-faced old jurist, Sir Isaac Isaacs, is Chief Justice of the Dominion. He it was to whom Laborite Prime Minister James Henry Scullin turned last week, seeking a new governor general...
...benevolent alumni could be persuaded to give a few hundred thousand to endow badly needed chairs at Ithaca, we should have "a handful of thinking men" who might do something to make the various departments at Cornell foremost in their fields...