Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...address before the Southern Society at Washington, U. S. capital, Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S., found an opportunity to reply to the charges made by W. B. Shearer, Manhattan naval expert, to the effect that Britain and other Powers had not carried out the terms of the Limitation of Armaments Treaty (TIME, Nov. 24, Dec. 1). Said he: "Now there is one small point about which, if I may, I should like to say a few words tonight. Many of the Southern states have a maritime seaboard-everything therefore referring to naval matters must...
Clem L. Shaver, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Jesse H. Jones, finance expert of the same Committee, George W. Olvany, boss of Tammany, all rushed down to the harbor in Manhattan to say farewell to the French Liner Paris. Aboard were Mr. and Mrs. John W. Davis...
Sunday, December 14. Roger Babson, business expert and statistician, will speak on "The Fundamentals of Prosperity" at the Paine Concert Hall at 4 o'clock. This is the last of the Sunday afternoon lectures on religious topics for the first half year. The course will be continued after the mid-year period...
...counselors-at-law. At his right hand was Wilton J. Lambert, Washington attorney, centurion of the bodyguard. Such was the abrupt appearance of William B. Shearer, plaintiff?described in papers which his lawyers proceeded to file as a citizen and a taxpayer as well as a qualified naval expert and the inventor of a type of one-man torpedo boat, the Sea Hornet, sold to the Government during the War. One other person was described in the papers filed. He was Curtis D. Wilbur, set down as Secretary of the Navy and defendant...
Died in Paris, Dr. Bergonie, radium expert of Bordeaux, killed by the effects of the insidious element he had used so adeptly to cure others. At the Bordeaux Clinique, of which he was Röntgenologist,? he had long carried on experiments with radium, in which he had consummate faith as a curative, studying its effect on gangrenous growths, on cancer. Continued exposure to radium rays caused a disintegration of the cells of his right arm, which had to be amputated. A cancerous infection had invaded his respiratory system. Dying, he called a council of physicians, outlined to them...