Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...filled, a long-filled place was vacated. For nearly twelve months since T. Jefferson Coolidge resigned because he disliked the New Deal's mounting debts, the job of Under Secretary of the Treasury had been vacant. Last week, giving up futile efforts to find for the job an expert in the technique of floating Government bonds who had no connection with Wall Street, the President sent to the Senate the name Roswell Foster Magill. Not a bond expert but a tax expert...
...breed, the best old Owl and the best old African Owl. Had the Parlor Rollers in last week's show been capable of reversing their situation instead of themselves, they would doubtless have picked, as the best pigeon judge in the U. S., a precise mild-mannered expert who, unlike the rest of his breed, judged not one or two classes but about 100, or one-third of the show's total. He was Jacob Justin Keifer, only professional pigeon judge in the U. S. who knows enough about pigeons to be capable of judging any variety that...
...editor the Capitol Daily has a thorough professional in Sidney Whipple, Dartmouth graduate and United Press's expert on the Lindbergh kidnapping...
...private files until last week when that institution suddenly swamped him with so much material that he had to adjourn for a week to digest it. Before adjournment, however, he unearthed a memorandum to the Exchange's listing committee from John Minor Botts Hoxsey. its listing expert. Last week the Stock Exchange honored Mr. Hoxsey by making him a full-fledged member of the listing committee, invited him to sit in on meetings of the governing committee. It appeared from his writings, however, that the Exchange could have done worse than elect old Mr. Hoxsey president ten years...
Chief Gabrielson, an expert who has been with the Survey since 1915, reviewed its New Deal program of restoring marsh land for duck breeding grounds and refuges. Minimum requirement, said he, is 7,500,000 acres. The Survey is about halfway to that goal. But, continued the broad-beamed Chief, "there are two small groups among people who hunt who may defeat this program." One group is composed of commercial hunters, usually petty thieves and miscreants. "So long as a section of the American public will pay exorbitant prices for contraband game in restaurants, night clubs and hotels, we will...