Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Being expert at such work he picked the Administration's most vulnerable spot and began to hammer. The greater part of the Senate despises Huey Long. But Senator Norris also despises Postmaster General Farley with the fervor of a man who hates patronage; Senators Cutting, La Follette and other liberals despise Mr. Farley because in the last election he put the Democratic Party ahead of liberalism; most Republican regulars despise Mr. Farley as a matter of policy. Mr. Long was shrewd enough to pick Mr. Farley as his target, thereby gaining a maximum number of allies...
...Unger, expert on Beethoven data, disclosed that he had found 250 letters and many musical scores written by Beethoven in the possession of a Swiss collector...
...cranky old Civil War generals fighting Gettysburg over again, Messrs. Glass & Owen, born scarcely a block apart in Lynchburg, Va., had at each other again last week when Mr. Owen, onetime Indian Agent for the Five Civilized Tribes, accused Senator Glass of "using an undeserved prestige as an expert in monetary science against the public interest...
...Roosevelt dispatched to his legislative leaders a 20,000-word bill which in one form or another is almost sure to be the Banking Act of 1935. Most significant banking measure since the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the bill was so technical that no one except a banking expert could hope to understand it in detail. Nevertheless, its objective was crystal clear-unchallenged Federal control of the nation's currency and credit. It did not establish a central bank such as money-fanatics like Senator Elmer Thomas and Father Coughlin have been yammering for. But if the bill...
Married. Dr. Harvey Nathaniel Davis, 53, president of Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, N. J.); and Helen Clarkson Miller, 55, his third wife, social and economic research expert, long-time executive and headmistress from 1929 to 1932 of socialite Spence School; in Manhattan...