Word: advisor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suspended service to send every plane on the search. Col. Lind- bergh, the line's technical advisor, and his wife flew from Long Island to hunt. The aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga sent ten planes from San Diego harbor; the Army sent squadrons from Texas, California, Nebraska. Western Air Express pilots, keeping up their service, had orders to deviate from their fixed routes to scan remote terrain...
Which Would Win? The occidental who knows most about which side might win a Chino-Russian war is hard-boiled "Major General" Frank Sutton. He used to be chief military advisor to rapacious, barbaric old Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, father of the present Governor-Dictator of Manchuria, Chang Hsueh-Liang. Since Old Chang waged most of his wars from Mukden-and finally died there when his armored train was dynamited-the doughty General Sutton knows every inch of Manchuria's prospective battlefields and also the calibre and equipment of Chinese and Russian troops. Sought out in London...
...process of creating for Chicago in 1933 a World Fair which shall never be tiresome, always stimulating, was in full stride last week. The architectural committee and Norman Bel Geddes, famed Manhattan man-of-all-design, gamester (TIME, March 4), who functions as an advisor, had begun talking details...
Leading them through the trying days had been Joseph N. Weber, their president, captain, champion, advisor. But even "Joe" Weber had been unable to offer any sure-fire suggestion for a way to combat the "menace" of machine-made music in the cinema houses of the land. Even "Joe" Weber seemed to see nothing but musical doom, and the one resolution which was issued for publication after the secret meetings contained nothing more cheerful than pride, nothing more tangible than a prediction...
...Freshmen are reminded that they must hand in the cards indicating the choice of their field of concentration and their Sophomore study cards at C University Hall before 5 o'clock Wednesday. Study cards must be signed by both the faculty advisor and a professor in the department in which the student is concentrating. Failure to make an appointment with these within the last week will not be sufficient reason to grant an extension of time. A fine of $5 is imposed upon every student not having his cards in on time...