Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assembled for discussion to discuss. Present and discursive were: Paul Harvey, onetime editor of the one-time International Interpreter, who popped a revisional proposal for the Dawes Plan; Sir Frederick Whyte, onetime president of the Indian Legislative Assembly, who ridiculed "the menace of Asia" to the Occident; Far Eastern expert and publicist Henry K. Norton; two statesmen who may be termed the "lions" of the present session: Dr. Albert E. Zimmermann, successful fiscal rehabilitator of Austria-Hungary (TIME, July 12, INTERNATIONAL), and onetime Greek Foreign Minister Nicholas Politis-and many another. With addresses by the "lions" reserved to embellish...
...that the field for reform never lessened. Last week a familiar twa,ng was sounded in the annual meeting of the American Bar Association. Mayor Dever of Chicago decried prohibition. Onetime Bar-President Chester I. Long decried present methods of judicial procedure. Oscar Hallam of St. Paul decried paroles. Expert witnesses, insanity defense, Senator Thomas J. Walsh (who is holding up in the Senate a bill for simplification of procedure)-all were decried seriatim; Finally, the Association elected former Governor Charles S. Whitman of New York president for the coming year, then adopted a resolution that "the American citizen...
...deemed significant that President Ignatz Moscicki of Poland, an expert chemical engineer, has continued since his election (TIME, June 14) to labor in his spare time at the state chemical warfare laboratory...
...Assistant Superintendent Flora Drake of Indianapolis phrased the same idea more poetically: "A school is a 'child garden,' to translate a German term. An expert gardener should know the peculiarities of each species of plant he tries to keep growing in his garden." U. S. Commissioner of Education John J. Tigert discussed the drawbacks of democracy: "It is quite clear that democracy which has breathed so much vitality into the schools of the present generation, may be carried to the point where it will become an evil which can be equaled only by the good it has accomplished...
...Belle Ferroniere" was soon forthcoming and the person who conjured it was not Sir Joseph Duveen, although he likes to be a major party in all big deals where the old masters and $500,000 are involved. The sale was about to be consummated, certificates of authenticity, vouchers, expert testimonies and all attached to the work, when Sir Joseph gave out an interview denouncing the picture as a "copy. . . . The certificates accompanying it are worthless. . . . Leonardo never copies his works...