Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they wanted to make their points against the 18th Amendment. In addition to the repeal resolutions, arguments will be heard on 2-75% beer and on the Canadian system of government liquor control. Prime speaker for the Wets: Representative James Montgomery Beck, onetime Solicitor General of the U. S., expert guide through the legalistic mazes of the Constitution...
...Labeled Proposition Transactionelle Francaise (French basis for bargaining) the Tardieu proposal was handed out to all delegates at a meeting of the "committee of the whole." French expert Rene Massigli, who helped Tardieu draft the P. T. F. (as Tardieu helped Clemenceau draft the Treaty of Versailles), explained that its major points are: 1) The conference should set a maximum total of "global" tonnage of "floating material," up to which each nation would have a theoretical right to build; 2) In striving for agreement as to actual building and ratios the method should be to consider war boats...
...stark extremes is typical of Dictator Josef Stalin. Last week it was a grave and ominous thing that the Dictator seemingly believed the following words. They had foremost place in the official newsorgan of the Government. Isvestia, as part of the weekly critique of international affairs contributed by an expert of the Soviet Foreign Office...
...having been a member of London's party that he found it easy to raise capital. He started a string of cinema theatres, married Osa Leighty of Chanute, lectured on South Sea life, edited cinema newsreels, then began explorations, taking pictures. When photographing dangerous animals, Mrs. Johnson, an expert shot, stands guard beside him. Once they spent 14 months cruising in a 30-ft. ketch with an engine so faulty that no one could sleep below on account of the fumes. Lashed to the hatch, they slept on deck through tropic storms. They say they spent one of the happiest...
...Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History, Mrs. Delia J. Akeley, big game huntress whose late husband chose King Albert's site in 1920; Stanley Field, President of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History; Dr. Robert M. Yerkes, Yale's ape expert; Dr. Lewis H. Weed of Johns Hopkins; James Gustavus Whiteley, Belgian Consul at Baltimore. He who would hunt apes or elephants on King Albert's 500,000 acres must have a scientific object in view...