BRITAIN'S "BEST BRAIN."
Readers of the "Spectator" have voted George Bernard Shaw the "best brain"vin the country. The journal circulates among a thoughtful class whose opinions of mental ability are regarded as worth considering. Results of a popular vote were:' Bernard Shaw, 214; Sir Oliver Lodge, 183; Lord Birkenhead, 102; Winston Churchill, 95; Dean Inge, 91; H. G. Wells, 86; Lord Melclielt, 02; David Lloyd George, 50; Philip Snowden, 48; Sir John Simon, 45. Ramsay Mac Donald, Prime Minister, received not a single vote. Stanley Baldwin gets 13. Dr. Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, shares the Prime Minister's obscurity, but his colleague, Dr. Temple, Archbishop of York, has 32 votes. Lord Reading is supported by 35, Sir James M. Barrie, playwright, has 15,. and G. K. Chesterton has 17. No woman received a vote.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 187, 9 August 1930, Page 8
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