Word: highest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usually the choice for this highest colonial post lies between two types of men: a military man like the late Leonard Wood; a civilian like Statesman Stimson. Last week President Hoover found his man, Dwight Filley Davis, in whom are neatly combined the best characteristics of both types. His appointment seemed to please every one except a group of U. S. citizens at Manila who had sought promotion for Vice Gov. Eugene A. Gilmore...
...religious orders to own property, Mr. Maloney bought nunneries and monasteries so the inhabitants could remain. He had a plan to settle the trouble between the Popes and Italy by buying a corridor of land from the Vatican to the sea. Pope Leo XIII made him a Papal Marquis, highest title ever given a U. S. layman...
...Carbon Chemicals Corp. (West Virginia). The Edison "Genius Hunt" consists in finding in each State the high school student who has most distinguished himself in scientific subjects during the present school year. In August, Mr. Edison will give the 48 students an examination, will take the one with the highest mark into his New Jersey laboratories for instruction (sometimes personal). The Governors of 18 states have already notified their Boards of Education to help hunt...
...office of Vice President. Holders of this position in recent years have come into fame in considerable measure because of their colorful language and their discovery that "what this country needs is a good five cent cigar." If the present incident indicates the social prerogatives of this second highest honor of our democracy, it also shows that in the land of equal opportunity where any native may aspire to the Presidency, none but the legal spouse of the Vice President can enjoy undisputed the honor accorded his wife by a loving nation...
...Forty famed engineers gathered at the White House luncheon table. After the meal they awarded to their host, President Hoover, the John Fritz gold medal, highest honor of the American Engineering Societies?civil, mining & metallurgical, mechanical, electrical...