Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Coolidge Special got up steam. Behind it, when it started, would lie a Capital devoid of newsful Governmental activity save for the Federal Trade Commission's lively but long-drawn investigation of the Power Trust.
The porters tried last year to get action by the Interstate Commerce Commission. But the I. C. C. declined to interfere, having no authority to intervene in a wage controversy. The strike order, issued last week, was calculated to obtain action from the U. S. Board of Mediation, which is...
l'Union Artistique or Fine Arts Club. How the Coolidge Administration proposes to deal with this property in the manner of Louis XV was crisply revealed at Washington, last week, by Representative Stephen G. Porter of Pennsylvania, Chairman of the Foreign (Diplomatic and Consular) Service Buildings Commission. Said he...
The Lord Justice of Appeal, Sir John Eldon Bankes, presided last week over an Extraordinary Tribunal appointed by joint action of both Houses of Parliament to enquire into the circumstances of an examination by police officers at New Scotland Yard of a young woman, aged 22, who is by profession...
Did he believe his inauguration to occur at an awkward time, and his responsibility onerous, he must have been reassured by the valedictory of the retiring N. E. L. A. president, Howard T. Sands of Manhattan: "Human frailty exists in our industry as in all others. In an investigation like...