Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sweltering New Orleans Dean Arthur A. Vidrine of L. S. U.'s medical center announced the appointment of Dr. Urban Maes as professor of surgery and chief of the surgical department of L. S. U. Dr. Maes, nationally known cancer expert, has been a member of the Tulane faculty since 1906. Tulanians gasped with astonishment. So did Dr. Emmett Lee Irwin, who had not resigned from the positions to which Dr. Maes was appointed. He immediately announced he would not give up his job without a court fight. Said...
...Whether Thomas Bat'a ruthlessly exploited his working partners or made them comfortable & happy is the subject of bitterly controversial labor literature in Europe. In normal times the wage of expert Lynn shoemakers averaged $30 gold per week, expert Zlin shoemakers $13.50 gold. But the House of Bat'a claimed to provide married working partners with houses having bath and electric light for 45? per week, served restaurant meals at 8? each, "four meals...
...chairman. President Shoup is shifted to vice chairman, likewise under Chairman Holden. In railroad circles this shift was not regarded as a complete sidetracking of slim, grizzled Paul Shoup, 58. He will move from San Francisco to Manhattan, devote his time to traffic, in which he is rated an expert. In late years Southern Pacific has lost much of its east & west traffic to Missouri Pacific where the lines compete, notably from El Paso to New Orleans. S. P. now controls St. Louis Southwestern ("The Cotton Belt") and can compete with the Van Sweringens' MOP directly into St. Louis...
...financial bulwarking made it an appropriate party last year to a merger with Brown Bros. & Co., forming Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. Another Harriman venture is Harriman & Co., a small firm doing a lucrative business in commercial paper. Virile Son Harriman enjoys sport as well as work, is an expert polo player with a 4-goal handicap. In business his luck has been to tackle situations at bad moments. He has always had a sentimental attachment for Union Pacific, from which by hard work, spectacular plunging and foresight his father hammered fame & fortune. He was a U. P. director while...
Last week the Government's foremost expert on joblessness found himself jobless. President Hoover turned 75-year-old Ethelbert Stewart out of the Labor Department as Commissioner of Labor Statistics. Technically, Commissioner Stewart was retired for age under the new Economy Law after the White House failed to include him in its list of overage employes whose professional services were indispensable to the Administration. But many a Washington observer thought there was another reason for dropping this forthright official who had served his Government continuously for 45 years...