Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House had brought forth its tariff bill and to the Hoover eye it did not resemble the article he had hoped for (see p. 10). To find out what was wrong with it, to gauge its potential effect upon Business and the Cost of Living, the President set expert analysts to work. His own first impression of the duties on shingles, lumber, cement and sugar was not favorable but he withheld formal opinion until he was better fortified with facts. Trouble aplenty was in the Senate where the Republicans were quarreling among themselves, to the jeopardy of the Administration...
...laurels, had disappeared at a late hour last night. Foul play is suspected in official circles, but there are same who still cling to the suicide theory. They base their opinion on a study of the sex life of the ancient receptacle. "It may have been old," one expert said, "but it was still a loving...
...this particular game and I remember distinctly that McGinnity struggled with John Evers, not with Joe Tinker. Hugh Fullerton, the celebrated baseball expert, bears me out in his article "The Game that Stirred the Nation," in Liberty, July 14, 1928. He writes: "Joe Mc-Ginnity, the 'Iron Man' pitcher of the Giants, who had been coaching at first base, had seen Merkle's fatal blunder. He ran into the field and rushed at Evers. The ball was tossed to Evers just as McGinnity tackled him. McGinnity tore the ball from his hands, and while they fought, threw...
Since the War, U. S. financial physicians have gone to the far corners of the earth to stabilize the peso, sucre, zloty, pengo, gourde, piaster, cordoba. Some of them have stepped out of their college classrooms to put their fiscal theories into practice. Some have served only as expert diagnosticians, leaving behind a financial prescription for the country to cure itself. Others have remained at the bedside through long painful years, playing nurse as well as doctor...
President Hoover is understood to have been eager for some time to obtain the services of the dean. He is an outstanding legal expert, is not identified with either side of the prohibition controversy, and is prominent in the direction of the Harvard Crime Survey in Suffolk Country...