Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ridiculous to suppose the R. F. C. can go on indefinitely making loans to railroads to enable them to pay off 100? on the dollar on their debt obligations. I've been looking for some time for an expert capable of interpreting the future of individual roads to the board of directors and I think we have found the man in Mr. Berle...
...Expert fingerprinters held a party in Manhattan last week to observe a new, clean method of performing their job. The standard system requires the subject to smudge his thumbs and fingers with printers' ink. messy and hard to remove. The new method utilizes a pad impregnated with a colorless, nonpoisonous chemical compound and a special paper sensitive to that compound. When the subject presses his digits upon the pad, then upon the paper, his prints immediately appear with photographic clarity, his fingers remain clean, less suggestive of wrongdoing...
...Ambassador May's daughter Francoise will be the Queen of the Winchester (Va.) apple b'ossom festival next month. *Herbert O. Yardley, onetime Government code expert, declared in his American Black Chamber that the U. S. had stolen secret Japanese messages at the Washington Arms Conference. The official secrets bill was aimed at a second volume of "exposures" by him. *France last month issued $58,800,000 worth of new 10-franc and 20-franc silver pieces, first minted since...
...difficult to communicate the charm of so fanciful a story as Zoo in Budapest -a charm which lies less in the narrative than in Rowland Lee's expert 'direction and in the fine camera work of Photographer Lee Cannes who last winter received the Cinema Academy's Award for his work in Shanghai Express. First of a series of eight pictures being made at Fox studios by an individual producing unit under Paramount's onetime Vice President Jesse Lasky, Zoo in Budapest should excite interest in forthcoming Lasky productions, of which The Warrior's Husband...
...handball started in 1900. Cheaper, more convenient and less subtle, it is more popular in the East than the older game. Squash handball, played with squash rackets on a handball court, is popular in California. For persons too lazy or slow to be good at singles, which can cause expert players to lose as much as 10 Ib. in a match, doubles handball on the same sized court (46 by 22 ft.) is a comfortable pastime. Angelo Trulio had the additional disappointment last week of getting put out of the doubles with his partner, Maynard Laswell, by McCarthy & Serritella...