Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reporters scurrying to check up found that current U. S. diplomacy looked good in Finland and Russia. Thin, hardheaded, 47-year-old Ambassador Steinhardt in Moscow got a reputation for keenness as a lawyer, a trade expert, a ballyhoo-proof prophet of the 1929 crash, long before he won a diplomatic reputation in South America. Genial, portly Arthur Schoenfeld in Helsinki, a diplomatic trouble shooter, was sent to Finland two and a half years...
...expert's opinion was that the quake must have been in some deserted spot, for as yet there had been no reports of any serious damage nor were there likely...
...shirtsleeved men stayed in a smoke-fogged suite in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel, bargaining, eating, occasionally sleeping. Clarence Dillon wanted to sell the automobile company bought four years before by Dillon, Read & Co. from the widows of Motormakers John and Horace Dodge. Walter P. Chrysler, as expert a machinist as ever stood at a lathe, as smart a trader as ever swapped a horse, wanted...
...first of a series of five lectures presented by the Harvard Catholic Club. Thomas F. Woodlock, railroads expert, will speak on "Threats To American Liberties" at 8 o'clock tonight in Emerson...
...slowness of his characterization also reflected itself in his direction of the production. With an expert cast, this pervasive breathlessness could have penetrated the audience. But unfortunately the cast did not have the capabilities to carry off such a difficult technique of direction. Perhaps if the pacing had been quickened, the inadequacies of the supporting cast could have been smoothed over by the force of the play. But as it was, the pace which could have been tremendously effective only served to show up the cast. Erford Gage was, of course, the exception. Another exception might be made of Alice...