Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Francis Michael Shea for Samuel Estill Whitaker in the Claims Division. Out of Dartmouth and Harvard Law School (1928), Mr. Shea worked on AAA, SEC and Puerto Rican Reconstruction before becoming, in 1936, Buffalo Law School's prodigy dean. His special study is bankruptcies & receiverships, at which lawyers rate him far above his predecessor, the mayor of Riverview, Tenn...
Edward Gearing Kemp for Joseph Keenan as special assistant to the Attorney General. Mr. Kemp, 52, and like Mr. Murphy a bachelor, is from St. Clair, Mich. He was with Mr. Murphy in the Philippines...
...Putting the world on notice that, if war should break while he was gone, he would instantly summon Congress into special session to revise Neutrality, Franklin Roosevelt left Hyde Park, went down to the sea in the cruiser Tuscaloosa. He rounded Cape Cod, radioed "Well done" to the Squalus salvagers who last week dragged the sunken submarine two miles toward shore until it stuck in an uncharted mud lump. The President proceeded to his mother's place at Campobello Island where, 18 years ago, a ducking in the icy water was followed by the infantile paralysis attack which crippled...
Racing wildly down the track, Engineer Hecox reached a telephone an hour later. When rescuers arrived by special trains and motor, 20 were dead, 60 injured...
Information Please won this special dispensation because: 1) it is a scriptless, impromptu quiz show, hence cannot be rebroadcast later, like more predictable shows; 2) it is the star item on the Blue network, long considered a weak sister to NBC's Red network and lately the subject of the briskest build-up campaign in NBC's history. But to the suggestion that other big eastern shows now being rebroadcast might be recorded for the West instead, NBC's retort was: "Would you rather kiss a girl or her picture...