Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that New York City was no fair place to try a Tammany man) stood with eight co-defendants before the bar of Justice Ferdinand Pecora. Sturdy little Justice Pecora, who made his own mark investigating Wall Street for the Senate in 1933, had followed the Dewey proceedings with an expert eye. He bristled when defense attorneys thrust on his attention that Defendant Davis, who had agreed to turn State's evidence, had used the jail leaves (arranged by Mr. Dewey's office to permit him to see his doctor) to call also on his redheaded actress friend Hope...
...death do not always mean what they say. If all fathers were as quick-witted as Charles Didier and rushed their "smothered" babies to a physician, the rate of infant mortality would be lower. A baby's heart beat is so shallow, so rapid, that often only an expert with a stethoscope can detect it. And in the case of shock, the beat is intermittent, almost inaudible. Even blueness is not so much a sign of approaching death as a warning of oxygen deficiency...
Jean Baptiste Perrin has studied the atom all his long life. Born at Lille during the Franco-Prussian War, he became a professor of physical chemistry at the University of Paris in 1910, became an expert on molecular oscillations and the Brownian movement (movement of visible particles in liquids because of impacts from flying molecules). In 1926 he was awarded a Nobel Prize. Today he is president of the French Academy of Sciences. Last week he announced the discovery of naturally occurring ekarhenium-element...
...ambitious, amateurish Mr. Earle hopes to spring to the U. S. Senate, was coveted by Mr. Earle's Attorney General, Charles J. Margiotti who, like George Earle, was formerly a Republican. Mr. Margiotti charged Mr. Earle's colleagues-upon whose behavior he was presumably a behind-scenes expert-with horrid crimes. The Governor bade his" Attorney General substantiate the charges and prosecute. When Margiotti failed to do so, Earle fired him (TIME...
Miss Thompson, ever a brilliant rationalizer of ideas, says that her plan developed largely from conversations with German Credit Expert Moritz Schlesinger, friend of the late great Refugee Worker Dr. Fridtjof Nansen. It consists, in its simplest terms, of an international corporation for trading in refugees. Capital for this company, tentatively called "International Resettlement Co.," would take the form of billions of dollars of blocked German marks, Hungarian pengos, Rumanian lei, etc., now owed refugees and foreign investors who cannot collect them outside the countries in question. The corporation would contract to evacuate a batch of refugees, offering the emigrating...