Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"There ain't going to be any report, because there ain't going to be any commission.''
Doctors kept this year's infantile paralysis incidence low because they have recognized the early signs of the disease and used serums to prevent the paralysis. Best serum comes from convalescents. It is difficult to get, and scarce. Massachusetts, where the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission had three doctors traveling...
"Now, Mr. Hoover knows just as well as I do that the power of making tariffs could not be transferred from Congress to a commission without an amendment to the Federal Constitution, and there was no reason for that statement at Boston, unless it was intended to mislead the people...
For one of his years-old proposals Senator Norris last year finally did get sup port. Congress passed his bill to have the United States retain and operate its power and nitrate plants at Muscle Shoals, Ala. President Coolidge killed the bill by pocket-veto. Nominee Hoover embraced the Coolidge...
After a period of teaching in various colleges, and a year as assistant secretary of the National Civic Federation of 1902, Commons became professor of Economics at Wisconsin in 1904. In his term of service at this university Professor Commons has trained a large number of men now prominent in...