Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effort to use the money which flowed into his hands. To this difficulty Mr. Insull was, however, equal; there was the Colorado River Dam, and the pyrrhic battle with Cyrus Eaton: The difficulty to which he was unequal was that of liquidation. As an expert in money and banking, Mr. Insull knew that liquidation, on a large scale, is a witless feat which no one who lends money has a right to expect, and, if the demand had not been made upon him he was experienced and able enough to have managed the Insull machine through a period of reduced...
...second best expert on cigars in Great Britain...
...eased Dean Pound out of his accustomed place in the centre of the picture. Others in the picture: Samuel Williston, 72, foremost U. S. authority on contracts, Thomas Reed Powell, 53, Zechariah Chafee Jr., 48, Manley Ottmer Hudson, 47, Sam Bass Warner. Absent: Francis Bowes Sayre, 48, criminal law expert and son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson who last November went to Washington as Assistant Secretary of State; Felix Frankfurter, 51, author of the Securities Act, and this year's exchange professor at Oxford, whose friends think his good friend Franklin Roosevelt intends him for the U. S. Supreme...
Rangy, smiling, hard-muscled "Bill" Jardine, 55, started life as an Idaho ranch-hand. At 20 he entered Utah Agricultural College, stayed on to teach, made himself an expert in agronomy. Rated an able administrator, he had been Kansas State Agricultural College's president for seven years when in 1925 President Coolidge called him to Washington to head the Department of Agriculture. There he wrestled long and successfully against McNary-Haugenism. President Hoover sent him to Egypt largely because the Jardine family did not want to go back to Kansas...
Walter Haigh, son of an old employe of an old established textile firm, was a little too ambitious and enthusiastic for his own good. Foxy Leonard Tasker, an expert not only in manufacturing but in juggling a balance sheet, thought Walter would make a hard-working cat's-paw. With no trouble he lured Walter away from his job, set him up as figurehead of one of his own mills. For a while Walter thought he was being very successful. His quick rise brought him up the necessary social notches that separated him from the girl of his dreams...