Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long days and nights Senator Wagner, Democratic expert on unemployment relief legislation, had been working over a National Recovery Act with Budget Director Douglas, Secretary of Labor Perkins, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Dickinson and other members of the "Brain Trust." Their White House instructions were to combine in one measure a broad program for public works to make new jobs and the "partnership" idea for Federal supervision of industrial production, prices, wages and working hours as enunciated by the President in his broadcast fortnight ago. The bill would be the Administration's substitute for the crude null and minimum...
...France is still on free gold. Last week's meeting was to elect a successor to heavy-set President Gates W. McGarrah of Manhattan, re- tiring. Normally there would have been no question of the election of his alternate and chief adviser, Boston-born Lawyer Leon Fraser, Reparations expert at the birth of the Young Plan in 1929. In February B. I. S. directors so moved and appointed him (TIME. Feb. 27). But what about the sidestep of the U. S. from the gold standard? Last week's meeting silenced the quibblers and ratified Mr. Fraser...
...Besides jerking the ship about, it strained the controls. Since the robot first appeared, Sperry engineers and airline operators have been busy improving it. Last week the robot was presented again, this time by United Air Lines. Two years of practice had given it the feather-touch of the expert pilot. Instead of jerking the controls by direct mechanical force, the new robot eases them by hydraulic and pneumatic action. Also it is lighter and more compact than the old robot, since it utilizes the same gyroscopes that actuate the artificial horizon and directional gyros on the instrument board...
...follow, the expert Wagnerian performers who saved the past season from out & out disaster will repeat their acts. Paunchy Tenor Paul Althouse, who made a Metropolitan debut 20 years ago before he was artistically mature, will rejoin the company. Last week as soon as another season was assured, Cyrena Van Gordon, onetime Chicago Opera contralto, was engaged for the Metropolitan. So was Baritone John Charles Thomas, the Pennsylvania Methodist Minister's son who after an apprenticeship in musical comedy Maytime, Apple Blossoms) has developed one of the smoothest baritone voices...