Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...philosophy Harvard has religious-minded William Ernest Hocking, 60, profound Alfred North Whitehead, 72, one of the three "geniuses" whom Gertrude Stein has known (others: herself, Painter Pablo Picasso). Ill health made William Zebina Ripley, 66, railroad expert, retire last March but economics in 1932 acquired brilliant Josef Alois Schumpeter, onetime (1919) Finance Minister of Austria. Since 1882 Frank William Taussig, 74, tariff authority, has been one of Harvard's proudest possessions...
Miss Fane's Baby is Stolen is notable for expert work by Alice Brady and by Jack LaRue who plays the smallest, meanest and most jittery of the kidnappers...
...other trick to stop tax evasions was announced by Mr. Morgenthau. Here after every taxpayer's return must be signed by the expert or lawyer, if any, who advised him in figuring his debt to the Treasury. Thus if arrant crockery is found, the lawyer responsible may be dis barred. Respectable lawyers will give their clients shyster advice only at the risk of their reputations. For this new tax wrinkle U. S. lawyers can thank Earle Bailie, partner in the banking house of J. & W. Seligman...
...Stelzle's argument was answered by Lawson Purdy, tax expert and comptroller of rich old Trinity, which by its 200-year old charter not only possesses valuable (and taxable) business and tenement properties but also has a right to all whales washed up on the lower West shore of Manhattan Island. Mr. Purdy argued that if church property were taxed its value would at once shrink because assessment is based upon market value. The market value of St. Patrick's Cathedral would be nothing because no one could afford it. Furthermore, said Mr. Purdy, the value of such...
Meantime poor but honest Myron has discovered his career (hotelkeeping) and his ambition (to build and run the Perfect Inn). Through long and unamusing years he works his way up through every job in every kind of hotel until he is making good pay as an expert with a reputation. Then he sinks everything into his Perfect Inn, only to face failure when a murder and suicide on the gala opening night give the place a noisome name. Bloody but unbowed, Myron goes back to an underling's job. The story ends with his running a country hotel...