Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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* Reversing the trend toward legal betting that started in 1932, Texas last month repealed its 1933 law legalizing booking bets on horse-races and parimutuel bets on dog-races. Fortnight ago the now superfluous Texas Racing Commission received from one Tom Katz of Mesquite a postcard application for a license...
Killing the New York American had been a logical move for Mr. Hearst for a long time, and a succession of business advisers had urged him to do it. Last year it capped its historic record of operations in the red with an all-time high deficit of around $1...
Sea lion lovers on the Pacific Coast were further horrified last week when California's Governor Frank Finley Merriam signed a law providing that the Fish & Game Commission be "empowered to reduce the seal or sea lion herds by humane methods whenever such a course is deemed advisable, and...
On the 1,700-odd U. S. railroads from the Aberdeen & Rockfish to the Yreka Western, all conventional locomotives have what engineers call a ''Johnson bar" -a manually-operated seven-foot steel lever which puts the locomotive either in reverse or forward motion and also controls the flow...
In 1907 Sculptor Epstein, not long after he settled in London, received his first big commission through the kind offices of Etcher Muirhead Bone: 18 colossal figures for the façade of the British Medical Association's new building in the Strand. For his theme he chose The...