Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declined the job of Ambassador to Russia, or to Italy, or of Governor General of the Philippines, and elected in 1918 to run for Senator in Wisconsin. He was beaten by Republican Irvine Lenroot by a bare 2,500. So he returned to Washington to be a corporation lawyer (expert on the anti-trust laws) and "private diplomat...
...Treasury, vacated last January by Thomas Jefferson Coolidge after he split with the Roosevelt Administration over U. S. financial policies. Last week Washington newshawks obligingly sent out the following, at the facetious suggestion of the Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau: "Wanted: Outstanding financial and Government bond expert worth $25,000 to $100,000 annually, willing to work for $10,000 a year as Under-Secretary of the Treasury. Good opportunity for reliable man. Must be willing to work. References required. Apply H. Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, Washington...
...Reiner has held guest conductorships in Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna, more recently with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic. He led the Cincinnati Symphony through nine distinguished years, heads the Orchestra and Opera Departments of Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. He is considered an expert on Wagner, likes the moderns as well as Bach, snaps crack photographs on his Contax...
Many a lesser expert shouted his pro or con. But Dr. Freeman withstood all heckling, asserted: Our patients were treated by seasoned psychiatrists. Then they came to us. The results are permanent, appropriately, and not temporary. . . . We have not removed the idea by this operation. The idea is still there, but it has no emotional drive. . . . I think we have drawn the string, as it were, of the psychosis or neurosis...
Baragwanath never understood how he was duped with a salted mine, or why he was not fired for buying it. His swindle was minor compared to some he has heard of since : an old farmer in Georgia who tricked experts and promoters into paying $150,000 for worthless gravel; the celebrated Mulatos salting by which an exhausted mine was sold for $1,575,000. Baragwanath's friend Joslin met a still trickier game. Inspecting a claim near Porcupine, Canada, Joslin reported that it was salted, took no samples of the rock into which the gold had obviously been pounded...