Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parents at first wanted to take him to Sumatra to find a foster brother or sister among the orangutans. But they lacked the money. No U. S. zoo would loan them an infant ape. The Kelloggs felt frustrated until Professor Robert Mearns Yerkes, Yale's ape expert, offered to loan them Gua, 7½-month-old, tan-faced, brown-eyed, black-haired female chimpanzee, born to healthy inmates of the late Senora Rosalie Abreu's ape colony at Havana. The Kelloggs took a bungalow close to the Yale Anthropoid Experiment Station at Orange Park, Fla. and thereafter...
Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer, Princeton finance expert D.C.S...
John Buchan was brought up in the old Free Church which was merged with the Church of Scotland in 1929, when the Duke of York was Lord High Commissioner. A quiet, knobbly-browed Scotsman, he has been playwright, actor, newsman, publisher, lawyer, justice of the peace, agriculturist, tax expert, Wartime propagandist, soldier, lecturer, mountain-climber, angler. He sits in Commons for the Scottish Universities, is a trustee of the National Library of Scotland. Best known of his rare bills in Commons was for greyhound racing. John Buchan is famed in Great Britain and well-known...
...brought children a nursery had been established. The program was to be scholarly indeed. Dean Willard Learoyd Sperry of Harvard Theological School, first Rhodesman sent abroad from Michigan, would deliver the Swarthmore baccalaureate. English Professor Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke, first Rhodesman from West Virginia and now Yale's expert on Marlowe, would give the Phi Beta Kappa address. The Swarthmore commencement address would be delivered by Sir Francis James Wylie. who lately retired as resident host and welcomer to Rhodes Scholars at Oxford (TIME, March 7, 1932) and this year, with his white-haired, U. S.-born wife...
...their prime include such men as Russell C. Leffingwell, from the law, who succeeds in large part to the place vacated by the late Dwight Morrow, and George Whitney who handles much of the firm's stock exchange business. Recent acquisitions are Harold Stanley, public utility expert, obtained from Manhattan's Guaranty Co. when Morgan & Co. plunged into utility financing, and S. Parker Gilbert, first famed as a brilliant young Treasury aid to Secretary Mellon. At the age of 30 he went with his bride to Europe to manage reparations. Returning, an expert on public and international finance...