Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gates Dawes, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. His official position would have made it hard for him to say no to his President whether he liked the job or not. A brusque and belligerent veteran of the London Naval Conference, Ambassador Dawes was no expert on the matter of land disarmament, would have to lean heavily on technical advisers. Only the most niggling of Mr. Hoover's critics would suggest that he had shunted the Ambassador to Geneva to nip a nascent Dawes-for-President boom. Last week Ambassador Dawes prepared for a rush trip...
...youngsters. Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel was the opera, first whole performance to be broadcast from the Metropolitan. Composer Deems Taylor, official narrator, sat in a little glass booth in one of the grand tier boxes, describing music and action to radiauditors. In another soundproof booth were an expert with score in hand, ready with warnings to tone down drum beats and bass notes, and an engineer watching the volume-registering needle...
...something from the fire. Some preachers think U. S. marriage is in a bad way. Most lawyers know U. S. divorce is. Because there are no Federal divorce laws in the U. S., because one State's legal meat is another State's poison, not even an expert can work out every divorce problem in his head...
...committee on classification of personnel, later was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel. After the War he helped organize Scott Co., consultants in industrial personnel. His subsequent activities-as assistant headmaster of Haverford School, and as dean of men at the skyscraping University of Pittsburgh-demonstrated his ability as a personnel expert. Said Princeton's onetime Dean Howard McClenahan: "Rutgers is lucky...
...Walter Damrosch heard her play last week, said it was "like raindrops in sunshine." Com-poser-Critic Deems Taylor said that he did not see why "a good ukulele player, such as Miss Breen, shouldn't be admitted to the musicians' union. Triangle players, snare drummers and expert sand block rubbers carry union cards...