Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bigwigs went to Ankara and. as a great exception to Dictator Stalin's ban on junketing, were permitted to take along their wives (TIME, Dec. 4). It was svelte Mme Suritz who turned the trick by having Paris gowns ready for the dowdy wives from Moscow and an expert modiste on hand to fit them. Under Dictator Kemal's critical eye, they shone at his grand ball as "Soviet Cinderellas...
...still helps to keep Nicaraguans honest. He spent 1925 in Chile as technical adviser to General Pershing's Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission. Hard-pressed Nicaraguans called him back twice in 1928 to help make his law work. After the election everyone shook hands all around-winners, losers and Expert Dodds. He has been called "the best-known North American in South America." Meantime there was work at home. In New Jersey he chairmanned Mercer County's planning commission, served two years on the State's Regional Planning Commission. His biggest job came two years ago. Heading...
...brainy students. Overshadowing all other aims, however, is his desire to expand and bolster his social science departments, prepare businesslike statesmen and statesmanlike businessmen for the era of government in business which he is sure is coming. No more radical than Dodds the educator is Dodds the political expert. One of the few things about which he, a Republican, grows publicly passionate is democracy, "the only form of government which respects personality and which a self-respecting people will bear." He does not know which way U. S. democracy is going, hopes it is in the direction of Walter Lippmann...
...artistic prestige it had in the days of Palestrina, Haydn, Bach. The first Westminster Choir (1920) was composed of factory workers and named for Dayton's Westminster Presbyterian Church where it sang Sundays. But John Williamson was not content with one group's singing, no matter how expert. He wanted proteges who, like himself, would be willing to devote a lifetime to church and choral music. In 1926, encouraged by Mrs. Harry Elstner Talbott, he started the Westminster Choir School...
Peter Hammar was an expert lacemaker, and both he and his wife Hanna worked as hard as they could, but there was no margin of safety in the wages they earned for their growing family. As soon as Erland was old enough to leave school he went to work too, but then Hanna found she was going to have another baby. Other unremarkable misfortunes followed: Peter got blood-poisoning, their furniture was attached for taxes, a general strike made even honest workmen scabs. Their story ends in the midst of the strike, with nothing to lighten the horizon...