Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Bell Riley, 71, executive secretary and co-founder of the Fundamentals Association. Patriarchal, resonant, he has debated many a time on Evolution. Proud is he that Clarence Darrow backed down" when he offered him $500 to debate in Denver. Rev. Louis Entzminger of Fort Worth, Tex "Sunday School Expert.' Large, eagle-beaked Brother Entzminger says he is a realist. "I knocked the face off the last man who called me a son-of-a-bitch. That has been since I have been a pastor. I don't live in the millenium, I live in Texas...
...Walter Lowrie Fisher, one of Chicago's leading lawyers. Secretary of the Interior under President Taft. Howard Fisher is both a technician and theorist in architecture. Architects in many lands have read his paper on getting the maxi mum amount of sunlight into a house. He is considered an expert on designing squash courts. One day he noticed his brother's walls were leaking. When he found out that Chicago's Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium, both masonry structures, also had leak troubles, he decided steel would be a better building material than brick. He first took his idea...
...sitting in school when one can sit on a horse and go somewhere." When Jockey Bostwick began to take polo seriously two years ago, he quickly had his handicap raised to six goals, barely missed being No. 1 on the U. S. team that beat England in 1930. An expert golfer, he won the Byers Cup at Aiken a year ago. Short (5 ft. 2 in.), light (118 lb.), he has an ideal build for a jockey: slim legs, good muscles in arms & shoulders. His hands are strong, unusually clever. Next winter he plans to ride...
...Congress: Appointed a member of the House Committee on Banking & Currency upon his arrival, he rose by the slow process of seniority to become its chairman when the Democrats took over the House last December. No professional banker, and lacking expert qualifications, he approached his legislative job as a layman unfettered by technique or tradition. Early in the session he put through the House measures to increase the capitalization of the Farm Loan Bank system, establish the Reconstruction Finance Corp. and expand the credit and currency facilities of the Federal Reserve System (the Glass-Steagall bill). Much of this legislation...
...hammered away on the idea that the Federal Government must do something big about unemployment. His proposal to create a Federal Employment Service on a nationwide basis was vetoed by President Hoover in 1931. He repeatedly advocated a full-sized program of public works to make more jobs. His expert interest in the problem of relief made him the No. 1 Democratic spokes-man on this issue and, as such, he chair-manned a party committee that framed the bill passed last week...