Word: whereof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Randall, especially, knows whereof he writes: he was director of a four-year investigation of the auto repair racket for the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly. In that position he discovered that auto mechanics are, as often as not, incompetent hacks. None of the 50 states requires that automobile mechanics be licensed, says Randall, although "persons engaged in less life-and-death-re-lated professions such as beauticians, barbers, and real estate agents generally must pass proficiency tests and be licensed in order to practice their trades...
Senator McCann, I have the feeling, knows whereof he speaks. Something has gone wrong here...