Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dr. Wilbur has been President of the American Medical Association, a Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, and a member of the Pan-American Commission. "Yes-men" are not chosen for such honors. When he became President of Stanford University he made many radical changes there and formulated policies which were...
Here, for example, are 17 miscellaneous resignations which the President must study, accept or reject. Mr. Forster has already sent the usual form letter acknowledging their receipt. And whom does the President wish to appoint Collector of the Port of New Orleans? Mr. Forster guessed it. Here is the lucky...
¶Passed a bill to extend administrative life of the Federal Radio Commission until March 15. 1930.
George C. Hoover, attorney for the Interstate Commerce Commission, cousin of the President-Elect, was knocked down last week in Washington by an automobile driven by Fannie P. Dial, daughter of onetime Senator Nathaniel Barksdale Dial of South Carolina. Cousin Hoover's injuries were a fractured leg, a bruised...
When the Chicago World's Fair opens in 1933 it will disclose a synthetic metropolis eight square miles in area, as colorful as the vanished palaces of Carthage, as modern in design as a straight-eight motor. These qualities are assured by a commission of eight architects who long ago...