Word: consultant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regime of President Gaulberto Villarroel, a 35-year-old Army major, had been recognized only by Argentina. The Inter-American Committee for Political Defense, meeting in Montevideo, had agreed that its member nations should consult before taking action; they were still consulting last week. Argentina's totalitarian Government, ignored by the Committee and widely suspected of instigating the revolt (a Chilean Communist paper, El Siglo, said that Dictator-Colonel Juan Domingo Péron had boasted of doing so), had hesitated 14 days...
Such bone-reading feats have endeared Professor Krogman to policemen throughout the Middle West. They often consult him in baffling cases, are invariably astonished at the precision with which he reconstructs the corpus delicti-and sometimes the crime. Professor Krogman, an ardent detective-story fan, loves this kind of work. In the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin this great authority on bone measurement recently described his uncannily accurate methods...
There is also another reason for the falling curve on deranged bureau workers, wives driven crazy while waiting for their husbands to come home from bars, lonely Government girls and maladjusted clerks: Government and private agencies now provide opportunities for psychiatric consultation. "Of course," says Dr. Overholser. "psychiatrists can't go about asking every lonely Government girl how her complex is today." But Government employes have learned to consult psychiatrists before everything turns black. "A girl who can't find a satisfactory place to live or who can't find a date is now advised before...
When the question of Alaska Highway fuel came up, the Dean, admittedly no oil expert, talked around a little bit, and held one conference - at which no notes were taken. He did not bother to consult the Petroleum Administrator about the alternatives, or WPB about the availability of critical materials, transportation and manpower, or the Navy about the possibility of sending oil up from Seattle by tanker through the Inside Passage. "I am not familiar with Washington situations and setups," explained the Dean. Then Dean Graham sat down and wrote a one-page memorandum recommending Canol. General Somervell okayed...
...Consultation. The U.S. Government had taken a historically important step toward international cooperation by agreeing to consult with the Allies "with a view to joint action on behalf of the community of nations." Consultation could mean anything or nothing; if the promise of Moscow was to be fulfilled, it would have to mean everything. Last week the U.S. Senate affirmed the U.S. agreement to consult...