Word: commision
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Handmaiden, Drummer Boy- Because there is a physical limitation on the number of commercial frequencies, Congress in 1927 passed a law declaring the air waves Government property. Wave lengths are merely "loaned" broadcasters for six-month periods. On the grounds that stations do not serve "public interest, convenience and necessity...
The 15 centuries of punishment that began last week marked one of the last stages in a campaign that began in May 1926 when Benito Mussolini decided that the secret terrorist organization known as the Sicilian Mafia, the "Black Hand," was a blot on the name of Italy. He commis...
John Pierpont Morgan, Junius Spencer Morgan, Mrs. Louise Converse Morgan, John Rogers Maxwell, Nannie Inman Brokaw, and 25 other rich Long Islanders obtained orders requiring Tax Commissioner John F. Neafsey to show cause why they should not get their taxes lowered in Nassau and Kings counties. Last year John Pierpont...
In the reviewing tribune Citizen Calvin Coolidge, Ambassadors to the U. S. Sir Ronald Lindsay of Britain and Ahmed Mouhtar of Turkey, many a foreign minister, Governor Frank G. Allen and Mayor James Michael Curley stood for an hour saluting regimental colors. When the last of the parade had passed...