Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Oil Scandals, as everyone knows, began in the administration of President Harding. It looked last week as though the oldtime sins of commission had been followed, in the Coolidge era, by sins of omission.
At Cheyenne, the Nominee promised a wage-protecting tariff which would at the same time strike at monopolies. He asked for "restoration of the Tariff Commission as an immortal fact-finding tribunal."
Respectful Englishmen welcomed the Agent General at Dover and arranged his discreet conveyance to a small estate in Kentshire. The host, who personally flung wide a welcoming door, is the fiscal arbiter of Britain, rubicund Winston Spencer Churchill, affable but shrewd Chancellor of the Exchequer. Very soon it appeared that...
Secretive as usual, the Agent General would say nothing. No official communiqués were issued. But leading correspondents convinced themselves with significant unanimity that the developments of last week were preparatory, preliminary. The world's foremost fiscal tycoons were understood to have debated principally questions of the organization...
When it came time to do something about the highly controversial subject of divorced persons and their status in the Church a commission was appointed to give ten years' study to divorce in general. For a decade, at least, official (and perhaps antagonizing) action was deferred thereby. This was...