Word: topnotch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clayton by headlining stories to the effect that merciless discipline and overwork in tropical heat have driven enlisted men to smoking narcotic marijuana cigarets, caused four of them to commit suicide. An Army investigation whitewashed officers. Last week Rounsevell was arrested on five criminal libel warrants, sworn out by topnotch U. S. Army officers in the Canal Zone. Bail...
Most motorists know the names of the three men who rank just below Alfred P. Sloan in the management and operation of General Motors: William S. Knudsen, Donaldson Brown, Charles F. Kettering. Not so well known are the three topnotch assistants of Walter P. Chrysler: K. (for Kaufman) T. (for Thuma) Keller, Fred Morrell Zeder, B. Edwin Hutchinson. Engineer Keller was hired from General Motors by Walter Chrysler in 1926 to consolidate the manufacturing plants of Dodge Bros. He stayed on to become Chrysler vice president in charge of production. Mr. Zeder was chief engineer at Studebaker in 1924 when...
...London native cabaret girls are plentiful & cheap but, to pick up the imported U.S. article, choosy Englishmen must drop in at Mayfair's two new topnotch hotels, Dorchester House & Grosvenor House...
...year income and custody of their three children. Two weeks later Marshall Field married Mrs. Audrey James Coats, socialite god- daughter of King Edward VII, widow of a British Army captain. Last October she, too, flew to Reno. That same week the wifeless multimillionaire gallantly shouldered the responsibility for topnotch U. S. music by accepting the presidency of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, personally contributed large sums to its deflated exchequer. Marshall Field was active in the management of his grandfather's store only when he sat down to board meetings as a director. If he could be said...
Minister of Finance: Senator Marcel Régnier of the moderate Left, Budget Reporter since 1933 and a great croaker for economy but not considered to have a topnotch fiscal brain...