Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The President's dictum was hardly in print before a group of Government employes struck-not in Washington, not in the U. S., but aboard ship on the River Plate off Montevideo, Uruguay. The crew of the S. S. Algic, a 5,496-ton freighter owned by Joseph Patrick...
Back to Captain Gainard from the Maritime Commission went a terse message which looked as if it had had the personal attention of Chairman Kennedy:
The crew swiftly returned to duty. Meantime in Washington Chairman Kennedy, stealing a phrase from his boss, declared: "The Maritime Commission takes the position that the action of the crew is unlawful. It also takes the position that in this particular case such an act constitutes a strike against the...
Last spring, needing cash and thinking the public had it for him, Hearst filed registrations with the Securities & Exchange Commission for $35,500,000 worth of bonds -two issues on two combinations of Hearst magazines and newspaper properties.
Although Pennsylvania with its heavy coal and iron industries originates upwards of 20% of U. S. railroad traffic, not for the first 45 years that the Interstate Commerce Commission was in action did it have a Pennsylvania member. In 1933 President Roosevelt remedied this state of affairs and did his...