Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Personnel) is Brigadier General Andrew Moses, field artilleryman and expert on materiel. Brigadier General Harry Knight, who entered the Army from the New York militia during the Spanish-American War, is G-2 (Intelligence). G-3 (Operations & Training) is Brigadier General John H. Hughes, who got out of West Point in 1897, just in time to be wounded in Cuba. Brigadier General Charles Sherman Lincoln, G-4 (Supply), started out to be a farmer by graduating from the Iowa State College of Agriculture, enlisted in the ranks in 1895, won his commission...
...Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo. Before primary time arrived "The Man" rushed back to Mississippi, proposed a 27-point platform for the beatification of Mississippi, attacked the record of Senator Stephens particularly because he had almost voted to give a Republican, Dr. Willard Thorp, a $9,000 job as an expert in the Department of Commerce (TIME, Oct. 1). Mr. Bilbo made great capital of that near sin, declared that such jobs were for good Democrats, that if Senator Stephens should lose his seat to Bilbo, The Man would see that even Stephens, rather than a damyankee Republican...
...Whist Club, lawmaking body for U. S. contract bridge players, posted a new scoring system to replace the one in use since 1932. Result of studies by the Whist Club, London's Portland Club, the Commission Française du Bridge of Paris and many a bridge expert, the new code is effective all over the world after March 31. Important changes...
...Russia when she met Werner Hofmann, a U. S. engineer who was installing machinery for a Soviet oil refinery. Conductor Hrdliczka quickly became Mrs. Hofmann, settled down to live in a plain clapboard house in Larchmont, N. Y. For her concert last week she somehow managed to hire 60 expert players from the Philharmonic-Symphony. The men liked her. Her manner was agreeable, her beat graceful and sure. Hrdliczka's concert sounded better than Antonia Brico's which took place four days later. But Antonia Brico had a stiffer undertaking...
...President Roosevelt screwed gold out of the U. S. people, threatened to go through the motions of taking China off the silver standard and establishing a managed currency. Dryly commented the world's famed "Money Doctor," Princeton Professor Edwin W. Kemmerer, rehabilitator of a dozen currencies and an expert on China's: "A managed currency is not at all well adapted to China's needs or to her people's characteristics. . . . If, however, China remained on the silver standard she would be sure to suffer when the accumulated hoards of 'dead silver...