Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...epic poets, through some chance, in all their accounts of the battles of champions, have neglected to supply the world with an adequate story of a battle between a crusader and an efficiency expert. Yet that, too, has striking dramatic possibilities; and observers were, last week, inclined to the view that the country is about to be treated to an example of such a conflict-a battle between a man with a cause and a man with simply an aim; between an indignant voice and well-directed force; between Roy Asa Haynes and Lincoln C. Andrews...
...four years, the champion of the Prohibition Army has been a crusader- Commissioner Roy Asa Haynes. But now an efficiency expert has arisen to fight with him for leadership. Lincoln C. Andrews, new Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition enforcement, looked upon the work of the crusader and found it ineffective. Mr. Andrews is a General (a title he acquired in military service) and promptly he set out to reorganize the Prohibition Army. He decreed 22 new district commanders in place of the present 48 sub-commanders (TIME, July 6), a policy to which Crusader Haynes could...
...when General Andrews proposed to do away with the corps of trumpeters and heralds and replace them with combatant troops, then the old crusader rebelled, crying that no crusading army had ever done battle without music and proclamations. And the efficiency expert made answer that the crusade was nothing, but the capture of the Holy City was everything. All this came to pass last week. To begin with, General Andrews demanded the resignation of Miss Georgia Hopley, whom the crusader had brought with him from Ohio. Miss Hopley's resignation was demanded because she was receiving a salary...
This second controversy is perhaps not ended yet, but the week's struggle for ascendancy ended with the efficiency expert having the upper hand over the crusader...
...meanwhile, the efficiency expert is going busily about his plans for converting the crusading army into an expeditionary force with modern military methods...