Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Wisconsin conservation commission had appointed John La Roque, a half-breed (Chippewa-French) several years older than Calvin Coolidge, to be the official Coolidge fishing guide. Newsgatherers, barred from the damp fastnesses of the Cedar Island estate by iron gates and soldiers, got hold of Guide La Roque and...
However, since the present ruling class of Young Turks are not pious Mohammedans, it was natural, last week, that the Commission on Religious Reform, recently appointed by President Mustafa Kemal Pasha should recommend: 1) Pews to cover the floor of every mosque; 2) abolition of the mosque slipper and prayer...
The latter commission they were, as had been predicted, unable to fulfill because none of the efforts submitted seemed entirely adequate. The grand prize of $10,000 offered by the Columbia Phonograph Company they could and did award-to one Kurt M. Atterberg, 40, of Sweden, for his Symphony in...
Irate, the magnates ordered an investigation, discussed a possible appeal to the Interstate Commerce Commission.
U. S. poultrymen failed to convene. If they had met, they would have discussed the statistics compiled by D. H. Otis, director of the agricultural commission of the American Bankers' Association: An increase in the average number of eggs laid by each chicken in one year from 56 to...