Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When able 64-year-old Frank Ramsay McNinch was appointed temporary chairman of the Federal Communications Commission last August (TIME, Aug. 30), told to set it in good order, observers who knew McNinch wondered how long it would be before feathers began to fly. Last week they flew. As organized...
Indeed, the United States Supreme Court, in the case where Chief Justice Hughes was quoted above, unanimously denied the power of the Governor of Texas to establish martial law in an oil field for the purpose of carrying out a conservation policy entrusted by the Texas legislature to an administrative...
Two orders of the Rhode Island Racing Commission closing Narragansett Park have been set aside by the State Supreme Court. Instead of going before the Racing Commission once more and establishing his case against the track by sufficient evidence, Governor Quinn has decided that it is too late to make...
Libel suits involving public officials and prominent persons are almost certain to create a stir. But there is more than mere slander in the Narragansett fracas. The fight between two unscrupulous persons, one, a hot-headed politician, and the other, a person who, many believe, is trying to buy his...
Similar was the fate of $48,000,000 of Bethlehem Steel debentures. In the month beginning Sept. 8 when they were offered, Bethlehem stockholders bought but $2,000,000 worth. Last week, therefore, the underwriters had to take over the remainder of the issue and offer it to the public...