Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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All over the island rich coffee and citrus crops were destroyed. All agriculture suffered. Communication, light and power systems were out of commission. The 600-foot towers at the Navy radio station were toppled. Water service was suspended and the population collected rain water from the heavy showers that fell...
Action. The Grand Jury guarded its findings, acted with deliberation. Its first act was to have Charles C. Beckman, Captain of Detectives, suspended and ordered for trial before the Civil Service Commission.
Though the problems of federation are already being ably grappled with by a Royal Commission, it is felt that a casual hunting trip by Edward of Wales may do something to persuade the colonies and territories that they might like to have this pleasant, popular young man for their very...
*Small exhibitors have in the past been obliged to accept "block" booking, a collection of tedious pictures with some good ones. The Federal Trade Commission investigated the system, found it pernicious, forbade it, denounced the burly distributors. But block booking continues.
Saul G. Bron, affable, heavyset, but not gross, able Russian financier arrived on the Mauretania. He headed a commission of industrial leaders prepared, they said, to spend in behalf of Soviet Russia. $40,000,000 for machinery to aid in the modernizing of agricultural methods. Said Saul Bron: "The construction...