Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the numerous positions which he held are: Investigator of financial and economic conditions in Venezuela for the Carnegie Peace Endowment in 1915; special expert with the Shipping Board 1918 and 1919; member of the committee on Statistics of the International Commerce Department, and chief of the Research Division of the Department of Commerce in 1921 and 1922. He had also written widely on foreign subjects...
...holder of the fellowship takes one year of intensive study at Harvard in preparation for any branch of public service, and then takes one year of field work, under the guidance of the trustees. The field work places the man in la suitable city in the employ of some expert who is sympathetic with the plan and who directs the fellowship holder in learning practical phases of his specialty...
...League attempts. Year ago it was the League-inspired loan to Austria that did much to ward off Hitlerism and keep Engelbert Dollfuss in the saddle. Since 1930 the League has been doing what it could for impoverished China. Eight months ago it commissioned its Dr. Ludwik Rajchman, Polish expert on China, to act as financial adviser to the Nationalist Government and handle reconstruction work in the Chinese provinces...
...chanced to be that our culinary Captain Wished, and perfectly justifiably, to get as much as possible on the palmy side of his boss, so consequently, when his table-setting expert returned, he fared forth to the President's lodgings in order to put to the most rigorous inspection possible, his employee's handiwork. With an accomplice, he had himself admitted to the dining salon by a servant, and right away commenced volubly, to a degree which he was certain could not fall to reach the right ears, to find fault with every least possible detail, accompanying those derogatory remarks...
...show people do not behave as these do, it is only because there are not enough Hechts and MacArthurs to teach them how and give them bright lines to speak. Twentieth Century is good fun, slick, wild and improbable. John Barrymore is expert as the producer because, like the rest of his family, he is endowed with a touch of the spurious and theatrical. He postures, tears his hair, wriggles, shouts, jumps, and with a gesture or a lift of the voice delineates such spectacles as a herd of camels, Rev. Mr. Davidson in Rain, Judas strangling himself (with...