Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In 1923 the U. of T. was a collection of wooden shacks in Austin. Then it struck oil on part of its 2,000,000 west Texas acres (its State endowment). In the next ten years the university built a $10,000,000 campus. Two years ago it hired, at...
Husky Dr. Rainey is renowned as a crack investigator and organizer, a liberal educator with a leaning toward the arts, an able administrator. After graduation from Austin College (Texas), he played professional baseball in the Texas League. At 31 he was president of Franklin College (Indiana), four years later became...
Last week, having labored to level local obstacles and brought all the utilities except big Nebraska Power Co. into line, Banker Myers rejoiced at a milestone which seemed to assure complete success for the "Myers Deal." The Federal Power Commission approved the sale to his clients of the Nebraska part...
Before approving the transaction the FPCommissioners asked Promoter Myers some questions. He said his commission was 24½% or $504,899 on the deal. After a split with Partner Nitze, and expenses, he expected to net between $70,000 and $80,000. On this basis his commission on the entire...
Yesterday, however, as one Harvard man to another, the President named Felix Frankfurter to the Supreme Court of the United States, and this nomination is an example of vision as sound and enlightened as Black's was ill-considered and petty. For most of his twenty-five years at the...