Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scheduled, Dr. Roswell Magill, called to the Treasury last year as a tax expert, handed the President his resignation as Under Secretary, to return to his teaching and book-writing at Columbia University...
Littauer described the laying of the stone as an "important mile-stone here at Harvard and in public life. "The completion of this building should point to the day when public office, in the hands of broadly educated and highly expert public administrators, will really become a public trust." The founder stressed the improvement of "public administration through making the government service popular as a life's vocation...
...Association of American Railroads, the New Deal shoved through a Railway Labor Act Amendment with teeth in it, set up a three-man National Mediation Board. Chairman since then has been little, alert, Estonian-born Dr. William Morris Leiserson, onetime professor of economics at Antioch College and a lifelong expert on arbitration. His present fellow members are both 200-pounders: George Cook, who began his career as a railroad timekeeper and has worked for every railroad mediation body since 1920, and Otto Sternoff Beyer, who assisted Joseph Eastman when he was Transportation Coordinator. The National Mediation Board's record...
...immediately trotted off to Washington to see Douglas, surprised him by asking for advice, promised to deliver the goods by January. Douglas promised in turn to hold off until then. So in Manhattan the Conway Committee set to with vim. Chairman Conway supplied the drive; Secretary Martin supplied the expert knowledge of Exchange doings; all were agreed in objective. And on January 27 they produced just such a program as Douglas wanted-complete reorganization, with a paid president, increased technical staff, various safeguards to insure democratic rule. Few days before the Conway plan came out, Douglas gave the Exchange...
...moved to the St. Louis firm of A. G. Edwards & Sons as a statistician, in 1931 was sent to Manhattan as its Exchange member. Immediately intrigued by the machinery of the Exchange, he often stood, mouth agape, watching speculation flow around him on the floor. Soon he was an expert at all phases of the market, could quote the capitalizations of 49 out of 50 firms chosen at random. In 1935 he became a governor, unobtrusively joined the Shields group...