Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neatly sorted into files are newspaper stories and photographs of the Foreign Secretary which he constantly collects, aided by friends all over the world who snip and mail anything they see about "Flying Sam." These remind 55-year-old Sir Samuel that he is an expert fancy skater, that he was Charles Augustus Lindbergh's host in London after the Spirit of St. Louis flight, that he won a socialite tennis championship last year at Dinard, and that he painstakingly answered as Secretary of State for India over 15,000 questions asked him by the Joint Select Committee...
...Alberta new Social Credit Premier Aberhart, having got his $2,500,000 loan, announced that he was leaving for Detroit to confer with Radio Priest Coughlin. Said William Aberhart: "I am going to see Father Coughlin because I am in search of the most expert advice on this continent! We do not need Henry Ford's assistance but I should like to talk to him also because of his interest in economics...
...Stanley of Morgan Stanley & Co. (there is no comma, no hyphen) was the Morgan utility expert, having been admitted to partnership in 1928 when the firm was exploring the power industry. His father was William Stanley, engineer, inventor (thermos bottles) and founder of what is now General Electric's works in Pittsfield, Mass. Born nearly 50 years ago in Great Barrington, Mass., Son Harold was the eldest in a family of nine, and his brother Clarance is now head of the Mellons' Union Trust Co. in Pittsburgh. After graduation from Yale where he led the intercollegiate championship hockey team...
Married. George Vanderbilt, 20, big game hunter, heir to half the $30,000,000 fortune left by his father, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Lusitania victim; and Lucille Parsons, 22, expert golfer, horsewoman and rifle shot; at "Broadacre," her parents' estate near West Orange...
Recently members of the William & Mary chapter, curious about the smudged minutes, sent them to Bert C. Farrar, a U. S. Treasury expert in Washington whose job is to read illegible documents. Using a powerful camera, hawk-eyed Expert Farrar last week deciphered this passage: "For the better distinction of the fraternity between themselves, in any foreign country or place, it is resolved that a salutation of the clasp of the hands, together with an immediate stroke across the mouth with the back of the same hand, and a return [salute] with the hand [?] used by the saluted, be hereby...