Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indiana-born Dwight Green went to work as an income-tax expert for U. S. Attorney George E. Q. Johnson, whom he succeeded in 1932. Dwight Green's biggest income-tax case sent Al Capone to prison. He later tried (and failed) to send venerable Samuel Insull to jail for mail fraud. By the time open-faced, athletic, prematurely grey Pete Green retired to his modest private practice (mostly utilities), he had made his way among the solid Republicans who belong to the Union League Club. When they drafted him to stop Thompson, Pete Green gave jowly Big Bill...
...find Einstein unintelligible or Freud shocking. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, served in France and Mesopotamia during the War, was twice wounded, became a captain. He said he enjoyed shooting Germans. Nowadays he is known as an authority on poison gas, is an Air Raid Precautions expert...
...addition, that the Government would supply fields for the line. It turned over its stock to Government-controlled Canadian National Railways, thus putting Trans-Canada into the arms of C. N. R.'s President Samuel James Hungerford. Sam Hungerford promptly passed Trans-Canada on to a U. S. expert, stubby, taciturn Philip Gustav Johnson. Mr. Johnson had been making trucks in Seattle, Wash, since 1936, after the 1934 Roosevelt airmail purge with its compulsory reorganizations had thrown him out of the presidency of United Air Lines...
...line with a policy of printing columns by men in the University who are expert in a special subject, the CRIMSON will open a short competition for the positions of Music and Art columnists on Monday night at 7:30 o'clock...
SOME BURIED CAESAR - Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Attempted barbecue of a championship bull cooks the goose of two upState New Yorkers. Not expert-proof, but Nero Wolf's sleuthing and Archie Goodwin's cracks make it Rex Stout's best...