Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back for questioning. Superintendent Schwarzkopf announced that purported representatives of the Governor had tampered with his State troopers, tried to make them admit that Hauptmann had-been framed. Governor Hoffman impugned the credibility of the chief state witnesses at the Hauptmann trial. Last fortnight he took a PWA wood expert to Hauptmann's home in The Bronx, emerged after several hours to announce that the expert doubted whether "Rail 16" in the Lindbergh kidnap ladder had actually come from the carpenter's attic. "Nonsensical!" cried Attorney General Wilentz. '"Outrageous...
...Locarno Powers were waiting for him to make amends for his remilitarization of the Rhineland. In the glass and steel elegance of the Reichskanzler Palace on the Wilhelmstrasse, the Realmleader summoned his foreign policy favorites: Special Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister Baron Constantin Neurath, Nazi Foreign Affairs Expert Alfred Rosenberg. Germany's problem: to woo Great Britain away from France and split the Locarno Powers...
...opposed the canal, promptly took the floor, recapitulated the arguments against it: The Army's Board of Rivers & Harbors Engineers, which always passes on such projects, had refused its approval. Secretary Ickes' Public Works Engineers had also turned it down. Steamship operators did not want it. Much expert geological opinion held it would endanger Florida's water supply. It was the only great waterway job ever undertaken without the specific consent of Congress. Declared Senator Vandenberg: "There is not a scintilla of economic justification for going on with...
...most finished dancing number is the Apache dance done in convincing manner by Benjamin Welles, II '38 and Camman Newberry '37. John C. Develin '38 virtually steals the show, juggling with enough skills to make W. C. Fields look carefully to his laurels. He tops this off with an expert tap dancing...
...that stormy day, crushed by elephantine proctocol and the reluctance of Britain to see beyond her nose, France has recognized the hopelessness of her position. The Neutral Zone plan was foisted upon French statesmen with the "take it or leave it" attitude in which Britain has always been an expert...