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There was shrewd diplomatic purpose in the changes. Canada, underlining her sovereign status in the Commonwealth, was also assuming a more active role in world affairs than she has ever played before. This year Canada has already headed a United Nations commission on food and agriculture, assumed the chairmanship of UNRRA's supplies committee. Canada's able, young External Affairs department at Ottawa frankly looks forward to other jobs in shaping the future world...
...their place the President set up the Foreign Economic Administration, put in shrewd, ambitious Leo Crowley as its head. Leonine Leo also took authority over RFC subsidiaries dealing with foreign economic problems (Metals Reserve Co. and Rubber Reserve Co.), retained the board chairmanship of the U.S. Commercial Corp. through which he controls all foreign purchases...
Solely because of seniority, he reached the chairmanship of the potent Military Affairs Committee in 1938 (his qualifications: country lawyer, owner of a coal company...
...investigation of the Federal Communications Commission was becoming slightly nauseous last week. When Congress set up the committee to review the functions of FCC, backbiting Gene ("Goober") Cox-then (and still) charged by FCC with accepting an illegal fee from a Georgia broadcasting station-wangled himself the chairmanship. At the first public hearing Chairman Cox promised "an impartial and wholly constructive" investigation...
...Powell will help rule on prospective matches, contracts, ratings of fighters, and otherwise attempt to maintain law & order in the cauliflower industry. During his three-year term, he will pocket $25 for each commission meeting (they average four a month). If he should be elected to the chairmanship of the triumvirate, he would pay taxes on $7,500 more income per year...