Word: expert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Make Statements. He called a White House meeting, summoning Secretary Marshall; Loy Henderson, the State Department's Middle East expert; and David K. Niles, the President's special adviser on Palestine. But the meeting exploded into violent argument. Niles is pro-partition. Henderson is anti-partition. Mr. Truman broke it up by walking out, bitterly declaiming: "This gets us nowhere. All I want is a statement I can read tomorrow at my press conference...
This willingness seemed to be the reason he had been picked to help supervise the billion-dollar airlines industry. "If they're looking for someone with an expert knowledge of the aviation industry," said he, "they've got the wrong guy. What I know about the CAB and its problems is no different from what the average citizen knows about it from reading the newspapers...
...Russian bells, or zvon, are a delight to lovers of carillon music. Back in 1931, a Russian expert was sent along with the bells to aid in their intallation. A suspicious man, he was continually afraid that his food was being poisoned. After a minor illness he was finally shipped back to the U.S.S.R. when a Stillman nurse discovered him drinking a bottle of ink for breakfast...
Though the Kalmuses were divorced in 1944, Natalie's name still appears on all screen credits for Technicolor. She is credited with being a top color expert herself and was in charge of the color control department (which advises directors on proper clothing colors) for years. One apocryphal story is that her abnormally sensitive eyes perceive colors no one else...
Call Northside 777. James Stewart heads an expert cast in a good, hard piece of fact-fiction about journalism and justice in Chicago (TIME...