Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The solicitors from whom Broker Young would gladly have purchased $15,000 worth of soap wrappers were a group of pressure salesmen who got a 50% commission on campaign book sales. Senator Wheeler read a letter from Manhattan Lawyer Watson Washburn who said he had been notified that one of...
Last week the archer's arrows rebounded. Observers could envisage what scorn Charley would have called up if, in 1931, he had caught a Republican in his own shoes, for Charley had just announced that, while retaining his inside Democratic post, he was accepting a $200-a-week contract...
...Deal Can't Afford This ... it is not illegal but it certainly is improper. ..." Newshawks recalled that Charley's client's Station WLW ("The Nation's Station") is currently in bad grace with some members of the all-powerful Federal Communications Commission, particularly Commissioner George Henry Payne. But WLW got a routine extension of its increased power grant just after it hired Charley Michelson...
...from Union Station. Last February aged Art Dealer Francis D. Healy, chairman of the Municipal Art Commission, first saw clay models of Sculptor Milles' Wedding of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers reproduced in LIFE, grumbled that the fountain group would be better named "Wedding in a Nudist Colony." Commissioner Hubert Hoeflinger, onetime tailor, agreed that the Milles tritons should be trousered. Awarded a contract in April 1936, and warmly supported by other members of the Commission, Sculptor Milles worked on serenely in Detroit last week while a St. Louis Star-Times poll of public opinion showed 152 votes...
To the Securities & Exchange Commission's two-year-old investigation of manipulation in Bellanca Aircraft shares by famed Broker Michael J. Meehan (TIME, Nov. 4, 1935 et seq.): A Decision, the first involving manipulation since SEC was set up, ordering Broker Meehan barred from all U. S. stock exchanges...