Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nebraska's legislators voted overwhelmingly last week against a return to the two-chamber system. Most of them are conservative, and no supporters of George Norris. They resolved against President Roosevelt's Supreme Court Plan, rejected the Child Labor Amendment by 35-to-7. Outside of an unemployment...
"The subcommission unhesitatingly affirms that the results already obtained .justify continuation of the investigation. . . . The commission of inquiry is not trying to discover who is right and who is wrong in their political ideas and policies, the 'Trotskyists' or their opponents. It is engaged in trying to get...
He held honorary degrees from universities here and abroad; he was chief of the Division of Western Europe, American Commission to negotiate peace, 1918-19; he was an officer of the French Legion d' Honneur.
The picture painted for the 15,000,000 current U. S. investors by Author Reis is as disheartening as that which a 1933 book 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs painted for purchasers of a long list of U. S. advertised products. Mr. Reis's basic point is that, though...
¶In American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s Manhattan offices at No. 195 Broadway fortnight ago, file clerks checked & counted proxies in preparation for the annual meeting of the world's biggest private enterprise. One proxy was sent to the office of President Walter Sherman Gifford. Smiling, he read...