Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incensed and hurt, Sol Bloom cried: "At the outset I may say that this kind of work with me is a labor of love. Ever since I was a little boy I have delved into history. I like to read it, and I like to write it. ... I think that...
† Representative Bloom in reporting these figures to the House was underestimating his activities. His commission has 87 employes, working in 21 offices.
The British cannot partition Palestine, which they hold as a mandate from the League, without the consent of Geneva's Permanent Mandates Commission, and its president is the Italian Marquis Alberto Theodoli-another reason why the British Cabinet were being nice to Il Duce.
¶ "I deny the necessity for the Commission's recommendation that Holy Places need the protection of a Christian mandatory as a 'sacred trust to civilization,' " declared at Jerusalem the Secretary of the Arab Committee, Fuad Saba, who is himself a Christian. "All Holy Places of Palestine...
¶ "The existing system in Palestine could only end in disaster!" broadcast from London Earl Peel, Chairman of the Royal Commission. "I predict peace between Jews and Arabs when each have their own states in Palestine!"