Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The soul and purpose of the man stood well revealed when he utterly refused to deal or cooperate with the Indian Statutory Commission, chairmanned by Great Britain's leading Liberal barrister Sir John Simon, and now in India, charged with investigating how large a measure of self-determination can...
3) The Casino Syndicate has used its monopoly power to the detriment of all other "enterprises" in Monaco, suppressing cinema theatres and discontinuing fetes which used to fill even the small hotels with tourists. 4) The authority of the Crown and the extent of the crown lands are still so...
Experienced Prince Pierre de Polignac temporized, seemed to yield. By all means let there be a commission! Affably His Highness named three each of the resigned National and Communal councilmen to compose the Commission. Also the smart son-in-law had a proclamation from Prince Louis to read-a paternal...
Such propaganda would be viewed by many as pernicious. Others, hailing it as informative, would uphold it. Last July, the Federal Trade Commission conducted a public utility investigation following the acerbities which greeted the political largess of Public Utility Potentate Samuel Insull. That these utilities had spread propaganda throughout the...
Died. Joseph Bucklin Bishop, 81, able Manhattan journalist (Tribune, Evening Post, Globe, 1870-1905), Secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission (1905-14), Roosevelt biographer; suddenly; in Manhattan.