Word: talents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government to restrain the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange and the Sugar Clearing Association from carrying on any more speculative dealings in sugar. The injunction petition bears the signatures of Attorney General Daugherty, Solicitor General James M. Beck and five assistants representing the highest legal talent in the Government, and aims to " make the gamblers in sugar remove their roulette wheel from the American breakfast table...
FIERY PARTICLES-C. E. Montague -Doubleday ($1.75). The English author of Disenchantment, one of the editors of the famous Manchester Guardian, here turns his hand to fiction. He shows a vivid and versatile talent in writing two Irish sketches, three stories of the war, a newspaper tale, a literary burlesque, a story of mountain climbing and a shuddery horror tale. Mr. Montague shows humor, irony, sympathy. He understands the soldier as well as Kipling, though his sympathies do not run to war. He is never impersonal: he intrudes in the story with ironic or humorous remarks. The book...
...series of 12 figures after viewing them for two seconds, ability to tell within 20 seconds the day of the week of any date in history, and ability to square or cube mentally any number up to 100. Mr. Greenough, who has travelled all over the country showing his talent, has secured a long list of endorsements for his work, including the signatures of many college professors, public officials, and expert accountants...
...situation with professional care and announce their choice. General consensus this Spring places the preliminary laurels on the high priced, if not otherwise elevated, brows of the New York teams of both leagues. They won last year and each team has been strengthened by the acquisition of expensive juvenile talent...
Fritz Reiner has closed his first season as Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, with many tunes of praise following him. Mr. Reiner has displayed a full measure of lively talent as an interpreter of music and a director of musicians, and has in addition shown much capacity as a program maker?it takes creative imagination to get up an interesting list of compositions for an evening. Take his last "popular" program, perhaps the most difficult kind to put together. His orchestral pieces were: the overture of The Secret of Suzanne, Ballet Suite from Sylvia, the Nutcracker Suite, the Blue...