Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this enlightening education was Howell Colwell Hopson. When he left his job with New York State, he set himself up as a public utility expert. In 1921 he got hold of what is today the great Associated Gas & Electric System, modestly becoming its vice president and treasurer. Bit by bit he expanded it, snapping up one company here, another company there. Today the Philippines and Nova Scotia are on the fringe of his empire, while Tennessee and South Carolina are in its suburbs. Its heart is in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Hundreds of companies have passed through...
...Page 8 Chief J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation observed: "The average layman likes to believe that he could be an expert in solving crimes. But as with any other profession, only a small percentage of those who rate themselves qualified are fitted for criminal investigation." On Page 72, an old-fashioned advertisement urged: BE A DETECTIVE Earn big money Work home or travel Experience unnecessary
...herself "The Poetess of Naked Rhythm." To the Boverat family it appeared that a blonde hussy had suddenly interrupted their tea. She startled them further by rapidly removing what seemed to be all her clothes, casting off her manacles with a bang, and spinning her long legs in an expert cartwheel scarce five feet from Mme Boverat's nose...
...life, but they also expose their motivations, wills, characters. Anyone could decide, on the evidence of Rembrandt's pictures of this period, whether he would have lent his sitters money, married them or bet on their futures. They are for the most part resolute, weathered, resigned faces, expert at concealment, hav-ing the drama and depth of authentic human beings...
...first Jew on the French General Staff, was arrested on a charge of selling military secrets to Germany. Court-martialed, he was convicted of high treason on the basis of a secret dossier, which was later proved a forgery, and other scant evidence including the testimony of famed Handwriting Expert Alphonse Bertillon. Publicly degraded, Dreyfus was sentenced to Devil's Island for life. When it became apparent that Dreyfus had been shamelessly railroaded, Novelist Emile Zola, backed by Clemenceau and Anatole France, wrote his celebrated J'accuse, an open letter to the President of the Republic. Tried...