Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of Commerce Roper: The Department of Commerce is not doing its job. It is fair to say that it is not an easy job to do. But that is an excellent reason for putting a man there who understands and can lead Business, rather than a political expert. There were plenty of such men available on the liberal side of the Democratic Party. Gerard Swope is an outstanding example...
Secretary of Labor Perkins: The Secretary of Labor is a very great woman. But Miss Perkins is a social worker-not a labor expert-and the two words are not synonymous by any means. The stress of this period has discovered, in a Democrat, an ideal Minister of Labor . . . Edward F. McGrady. It may be the fault of nobody, but the labor movement in this country is a mess...
Dead End (by Sidney Kingsley; Norman Bel Geddes, producer). In teeming Manhattan no expert statistician is needed to point out that the city's wealth is unequally divided. Crisscrossed everywhere by hairlines of social distinction, with frowsy tenements rubbing their rumps against the flanks of patrician apartment houses, the island's very real estate proclaims the class war. Dramatic implications of this scene must have occurred to many a playwright before they were seized upon by Sidney Kingsley, who, though he won a Pulitzer Prize two years ago with his Men in White, is a comparative newcomer...
...unique opportunity for hearing expert opinion on this crucial subject, the meeting merits supports of the entire undergraduate body...
...dramatic poem in the full meaning of the term. That poem demonstrated, one may venture to suggest, the virtues and vices of Eliot's poetic method. His dramatic monologues--learned and concentrated and imbued with a strange rhythm--never reached a wide audience; they appealed to the widely read expert--the expert in the reading of poetry--in his study; they were not and are not popular poems. On the other hand, poetic names, whether they be tragedies, comedies, or historical plays, have only one legitimate excuse for being: they exist in order to be performed on the stage. Stage...