Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From reliable sources it was learned last night that Professor Oliver M. W. Sprague, banking and finance expert of the Harvard Business School, has been chosen for a post of major importance in the Bank of England. Professor Sprague, a recognized authority on the theory and history of banking, left Friday for England on a hasty three week trip to confer with Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England...
...devise the best means possible for its enforcement. ... All seem to view the industrial alcohol situation as the most difficult one to solve. . . . The Prohibition phase of the Commission's work can be done within three or four months . . . completed by July 1 at the latest. . . . Expert studies may be desirable . . . but these investigations should not be too prolonged or detailed...
...Only one other Labor peer was created last week, Major Dudley Leigh Aman, by profession a wireless expert, who did yeoman service as a speaker during the last General election. With Baron Ponsonby and Baron Aman the number of Laborites in the House of Lords is now 14, as against approximately 500 Conservatives and 90 Liberals. It had been rumored that Scot MacDonald would "advise" (i.e. instruct) the King to create 100 Labor peers, but the public excitement sure to follow such a perfectly justifiable move was deemed not worth risking until Labor has an overwhelming majority in the House...
...express office, found in the case a big gilt frame with ragged edges of canvas where the painting had been torn out. There was no clue as to the time or place of the theft. Dealer Phillips said he believed it the work of a "novice or an expert in a great hurry...
...reason, heard that he too was probably marked as a victim. He determined to cheat untimely death by making himself strong. In St. Louis, in the midst of struggles to earn his living, he joined a gymnasium. Soon his muscles began to bulge. He became an adept gymnast, an expert Greco-Roman wrestler. He entered the lightweight national tournament, won it; challenged Chicago's welterweight champion, flattened him in four minutes; challenged Chicago's Heavyweight Champion Frank Whitmore, downed him in 91 minutes. After unsuccessful tries as acrobat and laundryman, Macfadden announced himself as a "kinistherapist, teacher...