Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Briefly, the Dewey record goes like this. He struck from the first at the loan shark racket, and by convicting twenty-one usurers put a million-dollar a week business out of commission. Then, in rapid time, the system of organized vice controlled by 'Lucky' Luciano felt the knife, and...
Among the places they will visit will be: the Port of New York Authority; the Long Island Park Commission; the Westchester County Park Commission; the Essex County (New Jersey) engineering offices, and some of the traffic offices in the metropolitan district.
In the gorges of the Skagit River, high in the mountains above Seattle, is a grove of palms and banana plants. They were grown there by James Delmage Ross, superintendent of Seattle's power system, after someone told him it couldn't be done. Almost as surprising as...
¶Suspending Thomas F. Gagen, broker, from the Boston Exchange on charges of stock manipulation, the SEC cracked out a warning to customers' men that their activities "cannot long be ignored." Brokers shivered as they recalled that Chairman Douglas once declared that customers' men had "unestablished value." ¶...
". . . The recent drastic decline in stocks, on a very moderate volume of selling, reveals an impairment of the efficiency of the stockmarket that calls for prompt correction. This impairment is to be explained as the cumulative effect of a variety of recent governmental policies, many of which can and should...