Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sadly Cuba decreed two days' national mourning, dispatched the gunboat Patria for the bodies and a seven-man commission to investigate the freak accident. Promptly Mexico's Congress voted three planes, headed by their army air ace Colonel Roberto Fierro and carrying both Mexican and Cuban flags, to...
Since RFC Chairman Jesse Jones recently said that his commission stood ready to make reasonable railroad loans, it seemed likely last week that the B. & O. would get its loan. Without the loan it seemed equally likely that the line would have to join the 37 other U. S. Class...
From a seat beside U. G. I. Chairman John Edward Zimmerman and U. G. I. Vice President Conrad N. Lauer (see cut), Mayor Wilson rose to repeat his 50? gas campaign pledge. Looking directly at Chairman Zimmerman, he remarked sweetly: "You are efficient, and I'd prefer to see...
U. G. I. immediately procured a restraining order from the State Supreme Court preserving the status quo until this week. Simultaneously Sheriff William J. Hamilton Jr., Mayor Wilson's bitterest political foe, ostentatiously mobilized 160 pudgy deputies "to enforce the orders of the courts." The Civil Service Commission in...
As its latest bomb in its recent attack on the New York stock exchange, the Securities & Exchange Commission last week released its annual report to Congress, declaring that national exchanges have not yet demonstrated their capacity "to police their markets effectively against manipulative and deceptive practices." Hardly was this news...