Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Around the corner of 13th and Irving streets, N. W. swing heavy blue double-decked buses. There they stop, to start up again with a splattering roar of the exhaust. At that corner stands the Friends Meeting House where President and Mrs. Hoover worship. So loud were the bus...
¶ President Hoover bade farewell to Ambassador Hugh Gibson and Rear Admiral Hilary Pollard Jones, U. S. delegate to the League of Nations Preparatory Commission on Armament Limitation. Final presidential instructions: be careful.
The I. R. T. case had been in court more than a year. Last year a Federal Court upheld the 7? fare but it was never put into effect (TIME, May 14). Last week's Supreme Court decision, although it overturned the first decision, left the case still open...
People digging cellars and plowing fields in France and Belgium turned up, last year, the remains of 3,361 British soldiers. Edward of Wales as Honorary President of the Imperial War Graves Commission saw to it that these heroes, long since given up for lost, were reverently interred in eleven...
Presented with a list of 1,081,952 lost soldiers in 1919, the Commission has done so well that today the whereabouts of all but 326,256 are known. Corpses "identified and buried" total 582,783, while only 173,213 have had to be interred as "unknown soldiers." Especially tasteful...