Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ 32 degree Mason Franklin Roosevelt took a trowel in hand and with a dab of real mortar laid the cornerstone of the future home of the Federal Trade Commission (see p. 55), a structure known as the Apex Building because it will tip the triangle of Government buildings between...
Month ago when he took the President's commission to find a Court compromise and push it through (TIME, June 14 et seq.) it had not looked difficult. Instead of six new justices at one fell swoop, he had chosen a plan for four new justices, one a year...
lien was for $17.166 taxes on Gangster Capone's 1926-29 income. Next day in Jacksonville Mrs. Capone entered suit against the Federal Government through J. Edwin Larsen, collector of internal revenue in Florida, for $52,103 which she claimed was unjustly collected from her to pay her husband...
With a trowel once wielded by that eminent revolutionist, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt' last week laid the cornerstone for a new Washington building which will house one of the President's favorite government bodies, the Federal Trade Commission. During most of its life the commission was housed...
...only a name to the general public. It has some 550 employes, four regional offices (Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Manhattan). It handles thousands of cases each year. Its principal function is protection of the public, yet for every ten U. S. citizens who can name an Interstate Commerce Commissioner or a Securities & Exchanges Commissioner, there is probably only one who could name a member of FTC. Serving seven-year terms, paid $10,000 per year, the five Federal Trade Commissioners...