Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work." Boyle, at the time, was a private attorney representing, among others, clients trying to get RFC loans. Gratz insisted that he had earned the $11,000 by keeping Boyle's personal books and handling his investments after hours, although he was neither an accountant nor an investment expert. He admitted introducing hundreds of friends to the right people at RFC, but never sought "favors" for any, he said. Boyle quit paying Gratz for his outside work in January 1950, when Gratz left RFC and went over to the Democratic National Committee as a paid executive assistant...
Hastings William Sackville Russell, twelfth Duke of Bedford, a pamphleteering pacifist and animal lover who once had a private zoo for a hobby and became an expert on the mating habits of spiders, announced from his home in Woburn, England that he has developed a strain of homing parrots. They fly free during the day, he said, but return home at night to eat, sleep and breed...
Gordon Hall, for many years an underground worker in the Smith organization and at present an expert on semi-Fascist groups, last night told the CRIMSON that the Nationalist Crusade has as many as 200,000 members in California alone. "Smith is an extremely successful bigot," he said...
Always interested in the Earth as a physical body, Raisz first came to this country in 1920 to take his doctorate in geology at Columbia. At Columbia he became intrigued by the science of map-making, and in 1931 came to the Institute here as an expert in geomorphology, that branch of geography which deals with the configuration of the earth's surface. From that time until the present he has drawn thousands of maps, developed an entirely new form of map, built up the University's collection by trading some of his own choice specimens, and earned a reputation...
...What they finally got was a brash and breezy young man. Lynn White Jr. was a San Francisco minister's son who had studied at Union Theological Seminary and had taken his Ph.D. under Harvard's famed Medievalist Charles Homer Haskins. He was an expert on wine and cooking ("anything with garlic in it"), on 13th Century clocks and chivalry ("the culture of the horsy crowd"). And somewhere along the line, he had also become an unabashed expert on women's colleges...