Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Please ask the members of the Interstate Commerce Commission how they feel at being pictured (TIME, Nov. 1, p. 63) as not knowing that The Flag of the United States should never be at the left ("sinister") end of a line, but always at the right ("dexter"), or "military right...
Outward-bound to Rotterdam with a treacherous cargo of scrap-iron last week, the 5,815-ton Greek freighter Tzenny Chandris had barely cleared the port of Morehead City, N. C. when in the lash of a whining nor'easter she sprang a leak. After a three-day battle...
As he released his long-awaited report on the U. S. merchant marine in Washington last week, Joseph Patrick Kennedy declared "This is the toughest job I ever handled in my life, without any reservations whatever." Mr. Kennedy has had tough jobs before, including organization of the Securities Exchange Commission...
Under the Maritime Act of 1936 Mr. Kennedy's Commission was ordered to make not one but several studies of U. S. shipping. That seemed to beg the question, so Mr. Kennedy decided upon a unified, comprehensive study which would serve as a foundation for future shipping policy. Experts...
Does the U. S. really need a merchant marine? Of all the arguments ever advanced for a subsidized fleet, the Commission found only two that were sound-the importance of shipping to foreign trade and to National defense. Today the U. S. is the world's greatest exporting nation...