Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigate this field the Commission appointed Dr. Miriam Van Waters. No novice, Dr. Van Waters has long served as referee of the Los Angeles County Juvenile Court, formerly headed the National Conference of Social Work, is now an expert consultant to the Harvard Law School Crime Survey. She spent months prying into the dark corners of the Federal penal system as it applied to children. Her realistic findings comprised 152 pages of the Commission's 157-page report. What she told the Commission and what the Commission told the President in cluded the following...
...hero. . . . Mr. Hoover detests and dreads the mob. . . . His is a detailed, though somewhat disorderly mind. He gives off light, not heat. He is as dynamic as a 30-watt bulb. . . . He can work with underlings but not with equals. . . . Mr. Hoover was a promoter rather than a mining expert. His salary was $5,000 for mining work, $95,000 as a financial adviser. . . . His English [is] no more precise or pure now than when he flunked this course at Leland Stanford University and was enabled to graduate by a ruse...
...President Hoover and Acting Secretary of State William Richards Castle Jr.?awaited him inside the air-cooled White House office. What engaged their joint attention there were the international negotiations incident to Mr. Hoover's proposed debt holiday (see p. 16). Undersecretary Mills was the President's statistical expert in whose head were all the facts and figures needed to deal with France. Two, three, sometimes four times a day President Hoover would summon him for conferences from his great oblong office on the second floor of the Treasury overlooking statues of Alexander Hamilton and William Tecumseh Sherman, with...
While most bridge experts regard each other with ill-concealed contempt, the bridge expert whom others resent the most is Ely Culbertson. A pale young man with rings under his eyes, a slightly bald head, he was educated at the Sorbonne, married a bridge teacher after admiring the way she played a hard hand, now, with her aid, makes $40,000 a year as teacher, author, and editor of the Bridge World. Eight months ago he wrote and published the Contract Bridge Blue Book, advocating a bidding system for contract bridge on which he had worked eight years. Salient point...
Scornful, Expert Culbertson immediately declared that he had refused to join Bridge Headquarters, Inc., because it was a "purely commercial proposition," called it a "merger of ex-authorities" said there was no need for a universal system since 90% of U. S. bridge players already used the Culbertson system. Further, he offered to play, either with his wife as partner or with any partner of Lenz's choice, Expert Lenz and any partner Expert Lenz might select, 200 rubbers of contract bridge, bet $5,000 to $1,000 that he and his partner would win. Said Expert Culbertson...