Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interest centered chiefly around the State and Treasury portfolios. Last week Secretary of State Stimson announced that he was ready to coach his successor as soon as he was appointed. For this No. i job President-elect Roosevelt, weak on foreign affairs, needs a particularly able Secretary with an expert international knowledge. President Harding had such a man in Charles Evans Hughes. The favorite candidate for Democratic Secretary of State, at least with the Press, is Owen D. Young. Three other well-qualified gentlemen: John William Davis, onetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; Norman H. Davis, onetime...
...majority leader; South Carolina's Smith as chairman of the Committee on Agriculture Virginia's Glass as chairman of Banking & Currency; Mississippi's Harrison as chairman of Finance; Virginia's Swanson as chairman of Foreign Relations; Montana's Walsh as chairman of Judiciary; New York's Wagner as expert on unemployment relief...
Frances Perkins, chairman of the New York State Industrial Board. An expert on labor and social problems, she corrected the U. S. Public Employment Service's low unemployment estimate last August. She has a 15-year-old daughter. She is a Mount Holyoke graduate; always wears a brown, high-crowned, three-cornered hat. She went into social service work after witnessing Manhattan's tragic Triangle Shirtwaist fire in 1911, in which 146 girl workers were killed...
...reefers. They romped and spun tops while customs officials skimmed through their 22 valises in each of which bathrobe, towel, comb and handkerchiefs were packed exactly alike. Then, after sight-seeing Manhattan, the boys set out for Washington where Mrs. Hoover and many another notable heard them sing with expert unity and phrasing, saw them enact neatly and unaffectedly Bastien & Bastienne, a fragile little opera which another Austrian boy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, wrote when...
...announcement by L.E. Waterman Co. (pens,ink) of an autograph-collecting contest for children under 16, loosed a horde of some 150,000 begging, demanding, wangling U.S. youngsters on the world's celebrities. Last week in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel five judges (one a forgery expert) chose from the more than 1,000,000 signatures submitted, awarded prizes. First prize of $1,000 went to Thomas Leonard of Lincoln, Neb. Edward of Wales signed once, for a Michigan girl, added "Hope you win the prize" (she did not), then besought Waterman's London branch to stem...