Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Particularly valuable was the work of Pierre LaRose '95, formerly associated with the English Department and expert on heraldry, who designed the new arms for the University, the Tercentenary banners, and the flags...
...TIME shines in its own peculiar sphere in publishing the article, [ Harvard | "Class of 1911," by tennis expert John R. Tunis. Aside from the slightly Pharisaical motive which the author's labors seem to suggest, Tunis shows the same astonishingly naïve curiosity as to why even Harvard men hate President Roosevelt, as was expressed in a recent magazine article by co-operatives expert Marquis W. Childs. Both gentlemen should hark back to such Rooseveltian phrases as "hatred of entrenched greed." "unscrupulous money changers." "discredited special interests.'' "resplendent economic autocracy,'1 "enslavement for the public...
...weeks New Hampshire's Governor and ex-Senator campaigned for the Republican nomination to the seat from which 73-year-old Senator Henry Keyes announced he would retire. Henry Bridges, a handsome man of 39, an agricultural expert who got into politics because he happened to be a friend of ex-Governor Robert Bass, never ran for office until he was elected Governor two years ago. A good speaker, he traveled and talked often during the primary campaign. Only obvious flaw in his political make-up was that he dressed exceedingly well, wore a different suit each day with...
Achievement of such hefty circulation in a specialized field was a story of expert magazine promotion. From the start Publisher Hecht gave his magazine quasi-official status by allying it with Columbia University's Teachers College, with Yale, with the Universities of Iowa and Minnesota. A platoon of "advisory editors" was appointed, each with a familiar, impressive name and no objection to mild publicity...
...things did not go off as planned. As chairman of the Conference the New Deal imported an engineer from Palo Alto, Professor Emeritus William Frederick Durand of Stanford University. That famed expert in aerodynamics made a brilliant beginning by addressing the guests, without the aid of any translators, in English, French, German and Spanish, all of which he speaks fluently. This tour de force was enjoyed by the 650 foreign delegates who showed up. These included : Germany's Herr Doktor Julius Dorpmuller, the pudgy head of the Reich rail roads who was President of the second World Power Conference...