Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every Sunday is a Labor Day in Mexico these days as CMTists (Confederation of Mexican Workers) parade the city streets, cheering their orators-chief of whom is CMT Secretary General Vicente Lombardo Toledano, hot-eyed little organizer, who looks a little like George Raft, likes to be compared to John...
Two months ago the Government intervened to end a 13-day, nation-wide strike, commissioned a group of experts to study the financial condition of the $500,000,000 foreign-controlled industry. Last week the commission ordered that the 17 companies, including the Royal Dutch-Shell affiliate, Aguila, controlling 50...
The commission based its conclusion that the industry was able to stand an annual salary increase of $7,200,000 on four points: 1) "The curve of prices of petroleum products in the past months is rising, indicating that prospects for the industry are good for the coming years." 2...
When last year he brought Max Schmeling from Germany to give hitherto undefeated Joe Louis a terrible beating, it did not jar Mike Jacobs. Although the logical sequel would have been a match between Schmeling and World Champion Jim Braddock, who was under contract to the Garden, that sequence of...
About that time E. L. Cord's fast-moving career suddenly changed direction. In 1934 he took his second wife and their children to England to escape kidnapping threats. In Wall Street rumors began to fly that Capitalist Cord, who kept his fortune in 1929 by a wise abstinence...