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Word: commissioner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Norris sternly questioned the motives behind the King-Bridges proposal for an investigation. "I am just as anxious as any man on earth," he shouted, "to expose any evil, if there is an evil. .... In perfect fairness I would say to the Senator I would just as lief Willkie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Great Boyg | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

"Picture my feeling of emotion!" gasped Orator Hitler, almost suffocating with joy, and U. S. listeners heard him, via short wave, broadcast a triumphant reference to his "divine commission." Benito Mussolini had already received a gushing letter Friend Hitler had dispatched by air to Rome, and now the Fü...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hitler Comes Home | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

Ernest Angell, for two years administrator of the Securities & Exchange Commission's New York office, last week resigned to return to private practice. In so doing, he was following a well-established precedent which has given SEC about the highest rate of personnel turnover in the Government. Reasons for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Government's Week: Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

"Youth Looks at the World" will be the subject of Frank W. Wright, consultant of the American Youth Commission, and of the President's Advisory Committee on Education.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDUCATORS GATHER TO ARGUE YOUTH PROBLEMS | 3/16/1938 | See Source »

Harriet Monroe was apparently the only person in Chicago who could have made such an attempt. Born there in 1860, she always regarded it as a village. Her father was a well-read, moderately successful lawyer who could not keep track of money, complained about his wife's hats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chicago Poetry | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

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