Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good that at least one pupil reproduced them and sold them at a profit to outside businessmen. Abnormally nearsighted, Professor Sprague could not identify even his front-row students through his thick glasses. In April 1930, the Bank of England lured him from Harvard. When Britain went off gold, Expert Sprague helped run its Equalization Fund whereby the pound was kept at a 30% depreciation through foreign exchange purchases and sales...
...goes to jail for perjury but not until she ha? convinced her husband of her loyalty to him. He gets her out by framing an automobile accident to involve the traction company's lawyer. Mr. Calhoun. Of all Lawyer Stevens' machinations, this one is the most expert. He has Floppy jump in front of the car, gets a blonde into the back seat while Lawyer Calhoun steps out to investigate, threatens a scandal unless Lawyer Calhoun helps him free Mrs. Stevens. Later he congratulates Floppy on his performance of holding the bumper with one hand while smearing...
...Mayos, expert medical economists, do not agree with the run of the profession that Depression alone explains the lessened incidence of goiter. Like Dr. George Washington Crile in Cleveland and Dr. Frank Howard Lahey in Boston, the Mayos built a large portion of their clinic activities on goiter operations. Dr. Henry Stanley Flummer of the Mayo staff was the outgoing president of the American Association for the Study of Goiter last week. Dr. "Charlie" Mayo was on the program for a dissertation on thyroid deficiency, a commonly unrecognized disorder. Their interest in goiter has forced the Mayos to investigate...
THEY BROUGHT THEIR WOMEN-Edna Ferber-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Expert machinist of popular-priced fiction, Edna Ferber has long turned out best-selling goods in three different models: novels, short stories and, with collaborators, plays. Like all carefully machined products for mass consumption, Edna Ferber's stories are as competently finished, as conservatively up-to-date, as shiny with neat paintwork and chromium fittings, as unindividual as next year's family model, f. o. b. Detroit...
...Board chairman, instead of quietly celebrating his golden wedding anniversary at home, spent it instead as head of the U. S. wheat delegation telling the other nations that the U. S. had changed its mind, was emphatically in favor of limiting wheat production. With him Mr. Morgenthau had an expert of the Federal Farm Board, Georg C. Haas to give technical advice. Third member of the U. S. delegation was Frederick E. Murphy, Republican publisher of the Minneapolis Tribune. Mr. Murphy's fame rests principally on the fact that in 1921 he proposed a "ten-year plan...