Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Adopted a resolution by Michigan's Couzens directing the Federal Trade Commission to collect data on interstate transmission of electrical power.
Interlocking agencies, the Tariff Association and Taxpayers League share the same Washington 'offices, the same office staff, the same cash solicitors. Their collections are pooled. Their field agents last year brought in $209,586. In return they supplied contributors with "educational bulletins" on tax and tariff matters, gave "expert...
Changes in the College Entrance Board Examinations in English are being considered by a commission appointed recently by the Board, with Charles Swain Thomas '97, professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, as chairman.
No definite statement of the work of the commission has been made, as the study of the problem has just recently been begun. "We will study the art of examining in English," said Professor Thomas yesterday. "The results, for the most part, have proved satisfactory, but the College Entrance Examination...
The commission is composed of teachers in colleges, public, and private schools of the country, with the Graduate School of Education as its center.