Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chairman of the Senate committee investigating railroad finance. Fortnight ago the Senator unearthed amid the yellowing records of the Van Sweringen empire and the dust bins of Guaranty Co. history one gem of purest ray serene. This was a memorandum written in 1930 by John Minor Botts Hoxsey, listing expert of the New York Stock Exchange, warning that "public protest" would follow the multiplication of such corporations as the Van Sweringen holding companies, for which Guaranty Co. underwrote and the Stock Exchange approved an ill-fated $30,000,000 bond issue that year (TIME, Jan. 25). Last week Senator Wheeler...
Public administration in the United States has always suffered from the ingrained democratic distrust of experts. Hitherto, perhaps, this distrust has had some justification. In the first place the typical expert with whom we have had experience in government has been nurtured apart from the realities and so given to fitting his task to his theories. Also, with a comparatively modest bureaucracy, we have been better able to afford the trial and error methods of the deserving partisan. But now government has so expanded its functions that it has become the country's major industry and the need...
...Harvard 1912 man." Some 1912 luminaries who failed a Benchley citation: onetime Securities & Exchange Commissioner Joseph Patrick Kennedy, New York's former Republican State Chairman William Kingsland Macy, Massachusetts' Representative Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth, Author Frederick Lewis Allen (Only Yesterday), New York University's Richard Offner, expert on Florentine Art, Japan's steamship tycoon Ryozo Asano, the New York Times's Science News Editor William L. ("Bill") Laurence...
Selector for Book Digest is Donald Leonard Gordon, long a consulting expert to the book trade. Mr. Black's book career began in 1923 when he was salesman for a company publishing a one-volume Shakespeare. Launching out for himself on a $500 stake, Bookseller Black became Publisher Black with a one-volume Shakespeare of his own. Since then, Publisher Black has issued over 70 "classics," spent upwards of $1,000,000 advertising them...
...former law clerk and Baltimore reporter, Mr. Oursler has written a successful melodrama (The Spider), a number of novels, a series of detective stories, and a book on travel and religion called A Skeptic in the Holy Land. Mr. Oursler is a capable prestidigitator and, say some, an expert ventriloquist. Tweed-coated, narrow-chinned, high of brow, Mr. Oursler has a vaguely ministerial appearance. This facile and versatile literary man does his writing and conducts his employer's magazines on a cliff's edge at West Falmouth, Mass. In stormy weather, the spume of Buzzards Bay flies almost...