Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...failed to give their names, then admitted that the Department of Justice had investigated the case and dismissed it for lack of evidence. Most damaging charge Mr. Mitchell brought against higher-ups in the Department was that a man hired at $8,000 a year as a transportation expert served in reality as Secretary Roper's pressagent...
...Public Library last week announced that it had just received as a gift an arrant forgery to add to its notable collection of autographs. The document, purporting to be a brief letter in the handwriting of Benjamin Franklin, was gladly accepted by the library, for, according to Manhattan Autograph Expert Thomas F. Madigan, it was a fine specimen of the handiwork of Robert Spring, one of the most notorious autograph forgers in U. S. history. While hundreds of unwitting collectors have cabinets filled with Robert Spring autographs, wiseacres are willing to pay large sums for the few letters to which...
...Robert Spring was the most expert of autograph forgers, the most blatant was a French contemporary named Vrain Lucas. Within eight years he produced and sold no less than 27,000 autograph manuscripts including a polite little note from Judas Iscariot to Mary Magdalene. His greatest mistake: composing a letter from Cleopatra to Julius Caesar in modern French...
...James Somerville McLester of Birmingham, ingoing A. M. A. president and crack dietary expert, drew respectful attention when he declared: "The American people are acutely food conscious and will eat anything they are told is healthful. The cheaper cereals can be used as the mainstay of the diet, provided properly selected supplementary foods, such as liver and lettuce, are added in suitable amounts. Because of its high supplementary value in a diet of cereals as well as of other foods, a place must be provided in the household budget for definite quantities of milk and milk products. Even with today...
...days before the Postal petition was filed it was learned that nearly two months ago the company had retained for expert financial counsel none other than Charles Edwin Mitchell. Just what Mr. Mitchell has been doing in his modest little office had been something of a mystery ever since he returned to Wall Street last winter (TIME, Feb. 4). But the choice of the bankless banker as Postal's adviser appeared wholly logical. I. T. & T. was first financed by Edward B. Smith & Co. in the early 1920's but before the end of that decade the Brothers...