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...native Ohio. When the Oil Scandals broke, there were no party ties to prevent him from concurring in the scalding Supreme opinion thereon. Now the "Best Minds" are no longer referred to as such, but Mr. Chief Justice hears that his onetime party's Nominee "probably has the largest mind in America" and is a "planetary thinker." No opinion is required of the High Bench on these matters. When he hears of Hooverism and the Brown Derby, Mr. Chief Justice can smile, chuckle. He can point to his "dent" and lend his now almost universally admired bumps...
...Franco-British agreement provides no limitation whatsoever on six-inch gun cruisers, or destroyers, or submarines of 600 tons or less. . . . Such cruisers constitute the largest number of fighting ships now existing in the world...
What the Roman Catholic Church is believed to be to Nominee Smith, the Anti-Saloon League of America is known to be to Nominee Hoover-his largest organized backing outside of his political party. That the League would work for Hooverism was obvious. That it would endorse him outright was uncertain. Never before had it openly chosen between Presidential candidates...
...largest bail ever posted in Germany is 1,000,000 marks...
...brink of a 2,000 foot precipice teetered, last week, the largest monolith of flawless Carrara marble ever quarried...