Word: foremost
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Better luck attended the limelight performance of Voit Gilmore, 20, chairman of the nonpartisan, undergraduate Carolina Political Union (and president of his Chi Psi chapter). He began working last summer to get the foremost U. S. political orator of the age down to Chapel Hill to address his group, which prides itself on paying no honorariums and on cross-questioning its speakers when they are through. His college president, Dr. Frank Porter Graham, Senators Josiah Bailey and Bob Reynolds, Representative Bob Doughton and officials of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. at Winston-Salem (where Voit Gilmore lives) all helped...
...Foremost of the deals Terry, Manager of the New York Giants, had in mind was purchase of Zeke Bonura, first baseman for the Washington Senators. Six American League clubs had waived the $7,500 price on Bonura. The Giants' manager was expected to offer Bonura a contract if Detroit, the seventh American League club, waives its claim...
National defense, the subject foremost in President Roosevelt's mind since the elections, was pushed aside by him for a few minutes last week while he enunciated with icy deliberation the nation's considered opinion of Adolf Hitler & Co.'s super-pogrom (see p. 10). When he returned to national defense, it was with implied reference again to Adolf Hitler & Co. The possibility of the U. S. being air-raided, he said, had increased tremendously in five years. When asked if he had any particular air-raiders in mind, he told his questioner to reread the international...
Modern Turkey last week lost her foremost social and political architect. In Istanbul's white-domed alabaster Dolma-baghche Palace, in other days the home of sultans and califs, President Kamal Atatürk, long ill, died of cirrhosis of the liver. Beside his death bed wept his sister and two of his most intimate friends: Ali Fethi Okyar, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's who had stood faithfully by the Grey Wolf's side when Atatürk was waging a desperate uphill battle to save Turkey from dismemberment after the World War; and Sabiha...
Divorced. Lieut. Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham, 48, one of the world's foremost collectors of Boswelliana; by Christine Isham, the former Lady Churchill, his third wife; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty...