Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although to accommodate Promoter Jacobs the New York State Athletic Commission waived its 40-round maximum rule and 32,000 boxing fans proved willing to sit on wooden seats for four-and-a-half hours, the perverse indifference of the U. S. sporting public to non-heavyweight boxing encounters kept...
Middleweights fight at 160 Ibs. and have two current champions. French Marcel Thil, who won the title from Gorilla Jones five years ago on a foul, is recognized by the International Boxing Union, but the New York State Athletic Commission, and the National Boxing Association recognize Tacoma's Freddy...
Next day while the market wavered around its low, the New York Stock Exchange, by now as puzzled as everyone else, launched an investigation into all transactions of U. S. Steel common during the previous three weeks, explaining in a questionnaire to all member firms, that it was only studying...
...predecessor, a missionary's son, Bill Douglas was born in Minnesota 38 years ago, grew up in Yakima, Wash., since 1932 has been Sterling Professor of Law at Yale. On leave from that top-notch teaching berth since 1934 to assist the SEC, he has been a commissioner since January 1936. Upon his election to chairman by his fellow commissioners last week he hustled to Washington for a brief conference, then hustled back to his vacation home near Chatham on Cape Cod to rusticate until this week when he will actually take...
¶ For these and similar reasons railroad executives at a meeting in Washington of the Association of American Railroads decided to ask the Interstate Commerce Commission for a general boost of freight rates and passenger fares as soon as the I.C.C. settles the pending petition for higher rates for certain...