Word: commissioner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Over the dimpled, apple-laden hills of Yakima, Wash, some 30 years ago a sandy-haired boy with a pinched, earnest face used to peddle papers for the Yakima Daily Republic to help support his impoverished family.. Two months ago when this same boy, now a lean, tousle-haired...
Accounting. "I think the commission must be the pacesetter in the accounting field, crystallizing the most conservative practices of the best elements in the accounting profession and seeking by education, by precept, perhaps by rule and regulation, to bring the accounting profession up to the highest levels of its best...
What Now? Within the law there is little doubt that Chairman Douglas will do his job as rigorously as possible. Speaking for the Commission as its new chief he revealed the following immediate inten- tions :
*Read the Republic's editorial in part: "The Yakima school system should not be held responsible for the career of the infant prodigy who seems destined to become chairman of the Security and Exchange Commission. It is true that William O. Douglas . . . acquired the rudiments of his education in...
Died. Lord William Robert Wellesley Peel, 70, famed British Conservative, twice (1922-24, 1928-29) Secretary of State for India; in Petersfield. England. Earl Peel was a grandson of Sir Robert Peel, Queen Victoria's famed Prime Minister, who founded the London Police force (named after him ''...