Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King Carol invited Premici Tatarescu to lunch at the Royal Palace. Abruptly the Electoral Commission announced that it did not approve of the proposal by His Majesty's Government to construe the returns so as to give itself 50%. Denounced by the Commission, the Premier wrote out and signed...
Among the first and most feverishly idealistic projects undertaken by the League of Nations was to send a three-man commission to Persia (now Iran) to investigate the opium traffic. This task was entrusted to Frederic A. Delano, onetime president of the Wabash R. R., one of whose nephews is...
In figuring out these prices the Commission considered not only actual production costs but also its belief that rebate practices almost universally favored railroads and industry at the expense of the home consumer. B. B. C. asked producer boards (one in each district) to suggest their own minimum price schedules...
To guard against regimentation and bureaucratic unfairness, the Guffey-Vinson Act established a Consumers' Counsel (at present Senator Couzens' onetime Secretary John Carson) whose duty it is to protect the public. So far he has had about 200 complaints to present to the Commission. Most publicized came from...
...when he began his coal career as president & general manager of Erie Coal Mining Co. A member of Governor Pinchot's Pennsylvania Coal Commission in 1931, he had a hand in drafting the NRA coal code, went to Washington under the first Guffey Act as a National Coal Commissioner. A Guffey man, he is extremely dictatorial, rules the commission, whose majority supports him, with an iron hand. Whenever this backing has wavered (and it has done so frequently over patronage, office furniture and Senatorial meddling) B. C. C. has spluttered like wet coal. Last month a squabble reached such...