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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ranged around to help Dr. Moley help the President was a corps of U. S. sub-experts, chief among them William Christian Bullitt, veteran of the Paris Peace Conference and unofficial man-about-Europe whom President Roosevelt fortnight ago put back into the State Department as a special assistant to Secretary Hull; James Paul Warburg, able banking son of an able banking father; and Charles William Taussig, head of American Molasses Co., a minor member of the Roosevelt "Brain Trust'' during the cam- paign. James Warburg's father was the late Paul Moritz Warburg, member...
...resulted in a civic clean-up but also marked his real start as a professional factfinder. He conducted similar crime investigations in Missouri, Illinois, Virginia. Pennsylvania, Connecticut. Michigan. California. Indiana. Later his service on the New York State Crime Commission gave him the final stamp of authority as an expert on the administration of criminal justice. Yet despite his insight into conditions, he declares: "I feel no call to remedy evils. I have not the slightest urge to be a reformer. Social workers make me very weary. They have no sense of humor." In 1923 he transferred as an associate...
...Manila he spent some time in Central America "watching revolutions. ' During the War he trained officers at Annapolis. Admiral Standley has had plenty of experience for his new job in handling for two years the Navy's new instruments, its Treaty Cruisers. He is also a gunnery expert. Of medium height, grey-haired Admiral Standley is regarded as "swell" by the elevator boy and telephone operator of his Long Beach, Calif, apartment house. His son & namesake is in charge of the torpedo school at the San Diego naval air station. One of his four daughters married a naval...
...Robert E. Sherwood's play may be amused by the way John Barrymore makes Lunt's fiercely romantic posturings seem tame by comparison, and by the enigmatic inflections Diana Wynyard gives the role which Miss Fontanne made lusty and spectacular. The decor of MGM's expert Cedric Gibbons, the direction of Sidney Franklin and the clever casting of Frank Morgan, who looks a little like Barrymore, for the role of Dr. Krug all help to make the picture a suave and ingratiating transcription, which should repay in prestige what it loses at the box office...
...born in Hungary, later naturalized in Austria. He was an internationalist on Hungarian then on Austrian soccer teams. In 1926, he toured the U. S. with the Hakoah team of Austria, became convinced that all soccer needed, to become a major U. S. game, was a few really expert teams. In 1927 he returned to the U. S., partly for business, chiefly to improve the soccer. The Americans have two British fullbacks, three Scottish halfbacks, an inside right named Hausler who is an Austrian Jew, a centre forward, George Michaels, who was born of Russian parents in China, an inside...