Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that opportunity in full, as Iowa took it, State Government would have had fewer critics today. Last year Governor Arthur Harry Moore asked Princeton University to survey the New Jersey Government, recommend improvements. Put in charge of the survey was Dr. Harold Willis Dodds, Princeton's famed political expert. For three months he and 20 assistants combed the State bureaucracy, turned in on Jan. 1 a 125,000 word report showing how New Jersey could cut expenses $7,657,000. up revenue $6,356,000. His job done. Dr. Dodds went on to greater things. He was elected Princeton...
...Conference then and there. It must be sold adroitly to French Finance Minister Georges Bonnet or he might walk out of the Conference. Mild Mr. Hull, feeling perhaps not equal to the job, chose as his Delegation's super salesmen James Middleton Cox and sleek, persuasive Manhattan banker-expert James P. Warburg. Salesmen Cox & Warburg took the Frenchman into an inner committee room, M. Bonnet protesting that since President Roosevelt was known to oppose dollar stabilization "the alternative is an orgy of inflation and the Conference might as well adjourn!" The door was closed, locked...
Like most expert humorists, Dwight Fiske started out in earnest to achieve the ends which he now so skilfully contemns. After a polite upbringing in Boston, he started out at Harvard in 1912, left to study music at the Paris Conservatoire. After composing a symphony of which he says "It was terrible. . . . Have you got an aspirin?" he met Marie Dressier at a party, regaled her with his musical arrangement of President & Mrs. Harding receiving the children for the annual eggroll on the White House lawn at Easter. Marie Dressier put him on a benefit performance bill. Presently...
When Duveen first denounced the Hahn Belle, Mme Harm's husband was a Kansas City auto salesman anxious to help but untutored in the art of expertizing paintings. Last week, while Lord Duveen in his scarlet cloak and cocked hat entered the House of Lords to bow three times before the Lord Chancellor and take his seat as a peer of the realm, Harry J. Hahn reappeared in the New York Press, with every phrase of the art expert's vocabulary at the tip of his tongue. Mr. Hahn was ready to damn Lord Duveen anew and present...
...long admitted. What Harry Hahn was looking for was some document indicating that his portrait had once belonged to the royal collection of Louis XVI. He found that this winter in the great art library of the Salomon Rothschild Foundation in Paris: a memoir written by an official Louvre expert in 1847 showing that La Belle Ferronnière, which had been one of the King's pictures at Versailles, was sold by Revolutionary Architect General Auguste de St. Hubert to General Louis Tourton...