Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frank Joseph Loesch of Illinois, Vice President of Chicago's Crime Commission.
¶ Last week President Hoover named ten men and one woman to investigate all phases of law enforcement-and the lack of it. This long-awaited Hoover Commission consisted of:
These presidential actions were based on recommendations by the Tariff Commission. Statistics were offered to show that in each case foreign production costs were less than U. S. costs. The President said: "The farmers and others should have the benefit of the Tariff Commission's determination at once."
Senate on Sugar. In 1924 the Tariff Commission made an investigation of sugar, prepared a report recommending tariff changes, submitted it to President Coolidge. This report, at the time, was supposed to favor a substantial reduction of the sugar duty. A candidate for reelection, President Coolidge pigeonholed the report, delayed...
Last week the Senate adopted a resolution by Senator Walsh (Massachusetts) calling upon the Tariff Commission to submit to it a copy of this sugar report. Utah's Senator Smoot, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, great and good friend of the domestic beet sugar industry, declared that "nobody...