Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Farmer Boy Reynolds worked his way west, was known as a mighty Leland Stanford footballer to undergraduate Herbert Hoover. Striking out for the East he took his law degree at Columbia, taught in the Columbia Law School from 1903-06 and 1913-17, and on the side did such brilliant legal work for the Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey that he was snapped up by George F. Baker, then director of First National Bank of New York. After nine years (in 1922) Mr. Reynolds was made president...
...bank vice-presidency in East St. Louis, Ill., was his stepping-stone to Chicago. There banker James B. Forgan took him into his First Trust & Savings Bank and with that potent backing and his own brilliant acumen he rose like a rocket to the presidency of the First National Bank of Chicago which he holds today...
...slender, patrician Englishman who rose to reply is Viscount d'Abernon of Stoke d'Abernon. A brilliant master of conciliation he scored heavily as the Empire's first Ambassador in sullen Berlin directly after the War. His brain conceived the Locarno Pacts. When three other statesmen?Briand, Chamberlain, Stresemann?carried through his idea and each won a Nobel Peace Prize, he contentedly retired. Germany had been brought back into the comity of nations and he did not care who got the credit. In the same spirit Viscount d'Abernon recently con- sented to head the unofficial British Trade Mission...
...three ministries vacated by Il Duce were all entrusted to men who held the corresponding under-secretaryships up to last week. General Pietro Gozzera, who served with Italy's Chief of Staff during the World War, becomes Minister of War. Rear Admiral Giuseppe Siriani, one of the most brilliant and successful seadogs in the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-12 gets the Marine Ministry. Finally the Ministry of Corporations goes to scintillant polemist and war veteran Giuseppe Bottai. As editor of Roma Futurista, Epoca and Giornale di Roma at various times he has had broadest experience with...
...these four Ticknor seems to be reasonably assured of the assignment in the first few games at least. He played center in practically every game last fall and showed himself to be one of the most consistently brilliant performers on what is generally considered the most powerful Harvard line in recent years. The only weak point in his performances was to be found in his snapping back which gradually improved as the season wore on. This fault was quite natural inasmuch as last season was Ticknor's first attempt at snapping back. His previous experience has been in the backfield...