Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metcalf, who lost to rich, scholarly Theodore Francis Green, lawyer and banker, close friend of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. Mr. Green was 30 years in politics before being elected governor four years ago. Horse-faced, stoop-shouldered and 69, he will take to the U. S. Senate an expert knowledge of Roman law which he acquired as a youth in the Universities of Bonn and Berlin...
...shoemaker, John Aiken left school at 14 to enter a furniture factory. Today, at 40, he is an expert polisher of hardwood furniture. Meanwhile, he has served as top sergeant in the Motor Transport Corps during the War, has married, has fathered five children. At night he has studied anthropology, sociology, history, economics, law. For 24 years he has been reading Karl Marx...
...with the White Army reported that they could see the twinkling lights of Madrid at night, the Government forces defending the capital suddenly received a new commander-in-chief last week, 60-year-old General Sebastian Pozas Perea. This onetime Minister of the Interior is a capable officer and expert tactician who has long been submerged in the political squabbles of Spain's Leftist Government. With his predecessor, General Jose Asenseo, booted upstairs to Undersecretary of War, General Pozas moved mountains to get a sense of discipline and a few rudiments of drill into his militiamen. A lucky...
...with high enthusiasm, took his place as one of the New President's close economic advisers. Among the first such pilots to abandon the New Deal ship, he quit in bitter disillusionment after the President torpedoed the London Economic Conference, at which Banker Warburg was U. S. fiscal expert, and with it Warburg's hopes for currency stabilization and revived international trade. Last year Banker Warburg capped his outspoken criticism of his old chief with Hell Bent for Election, which eloquently denounced Franklin Roosevelt as a promise-breaker, an incipient dictator, an "ineffective and dangerous man to have...
...hidden enemy Dr. Parran has had long training. He joined the Public Health Service in 1917 when he was 25 and two years out of Georgetown University School of Medicine. By 1925 he was chief of the Service's division of venereal diseases. Largely because he was an expert in that field he became Health Commissioner of New York State in 1930 upon nomination of his great, good friend and backer Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Largely for the same reason he became Surgeon General last spring, upon nomination of President Roosevelt. A Roman Catholic Marylander whose family has grown...