Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...C.I.O.'s Swisher said, with a slight note of surprise: "I think he [Mitchell] understands and appreciates the problems of people who work for a living." Said Mitchell, who clerked in a store, worked in a factory, and went through Depression layoffs before he became a labor specialist: "It is much sounder that people voluntarily go back to work than if they are forced back by an injunction...
...Although medical schools and teaching hospitals are taxexempt, surely no one would think it his right to tell the cancer specialist how he should go about curing cancer ... In short, the doctrine that tax exemption justifies a political judgment as to the soundness of ideas can be a very dangerous two-edged weapon. Indeed it can be the most devastating weapon ever invented for invading the private life of this nation...
...months ago, editors of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain gave New York World-Telegram and Sun Staff Writer Frederick Woltman a tough assignment: get busy and appraise the works of Senator Joe McCarthy. Freddy Woltman, 49, was just the man for the job. Long acknowledged the No. 1 newspaper specialist on Reds, he has been exposing Communists since 1938, and, unlike many other anti-Communist writers, he was never a Communist himself. A hard-digging reporter, he backed his stories with solid documentation-e.g., he exposed Gerhart Eisler as the top Kremlin agent in the U.S. the day before...
...Secret Front is made more difficult because Hoettl has not told his personal story, that of a middle-level bureaucrat aching to be a master spy. Though he speaks of "my agents," he never actually commanded any, but merely processed the reports of actual spies and served as a specialist on Central European peoples...
...makeup was handled by Specialist Syd Simons, who each day spent an hour and five Max Factor bases on Amy. He shadowed the sides of her nose ("That's not to say there's anything wrong with her nose, but we didn't want it to broaden under the bright, flat light"); shaded her cheeks to "minimize the puffiness" and darkened her neck so that "if she keeps her head up the folks won't see her double chin." Tastefully dressed in simple Sally Victor hats and Hannah Troy dresses ("We figure they...