Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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*American Friends Service Committee (Peace Section), Brethren Board of Christian Education, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Friends Book Committee, Methodist World Peace Commission, Mennonite Peace Society, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Hatay is a melting pot of Arabs, Kurds, Armenians, Alaouites, Greeks, Circassians and Turks. Of these, the Turks are most numerous, constituting 40% of the population. Taking a leaf from Führer Hitler's book and even improving on his methods, the Turks first asked for (and got...
Nazi Germany promptly declined to pay, holding that since its member of the German-American Mixed Claims Commission recently withdrew, Justice Roberts as umpire had no right to make a decision.
Lately, in sections of Philadelphia where Coughlinism is strong, Jewish synagogues and shops have been pasted with anti-Semitic stickers; windows of a Negro church have been smashed; a Protestant tolerance meeting was invaded by Coughlinites. A Commission of Fifteen sober churchmen, appointed by the Philadelphia Federation of Churches, investigated...
...Interstate Commerce Commission since it was founded in 1887 has followed the not-too-sense-making custom of making each of its members in turn chairman for a year. Last week it broke with precedent, picked its outstandingly able member, Commissioner Joseph Bartlett Eastman, 56, as chairman for a three-year term, beginning July...