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...Mike Phipps is a stubby, hard-riding youngster who was a member of Yale's intercollegiate championship team in 1930 and 1932. Like Mills, who also played on the Yale team, he learned polo from the late Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock. Billy Post, whose father is one of the shrewdest judges of ponies in the country, played at Princeton, is handicapped at 7 goals...
Thomas Masaryk created Czechoslovakia. As a professor in Prague he vehemently preached Czech and Slovak nationalism, got himself into bad odor with the Habsburg regime and finally, just before the War, teamed up with an able little man named Eduard Benes who was to become one of the shrewdest politicians in Europe and immovable Foreign Minister in all Masaryk cabinets. The firm of Masaryk & Benes escaped the country separately after the outbreak of the War. Immediately they began a great series of journeys to Paris, London, Rome, Petrograd, Washington, to convince Allied statesmen of the wisdom of lopping the ancient...
...Oklahoma Supreme Court, youngest man to hold such an honor in any state. Thomas Pryor Gore was sent to the U. S. Senate in 1907 (the year that Oklahoma became one of the United States). With the benefit of his greater Senatorial experience he was able to make the shrewdest observation yet offered on inflation: "If Cheap Money is what the country needs, why don't we repeal the laws against counterfeiting...
...last week resigned and was succeeded by onetime Yale Footballer John Kilpatrick-made a profit of $40,000 of which Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's Milk Fund got 25%. As usual, the Hearst papers earned the Milk Fund's share by giving the fight an enthusiastic ballyhoo. Shrewdest prediction of the result was a drawing by Burris Jenkins Jr., which appeared in the Evening Journal the afternoon of the fight. It prophesied 1) the winner 2) the knockout 3) the punch that produced...
...applied himself to the task of making a combination which would make his business secure. The only safety was supremacy. One secret of the Standard Oil was that it was a combination of brains. His associates, Harkness, Flagler, Archbold, Rogers, Payne, Pratt and Whitney were among the shrewdest, most unscrupulous and determined men of business that this country has seen. They get what they wanted. Freight rebates, favorable court decisions, markets, all sorts of advantages were seized upon to keep them in the lead, which they kept in spite of public abuse and legislative attacks...