Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indeed in a very big box. His training for the job consisted of clerking in Congress, working in President Wilson's Post Office Department (as the co-equal of his contemporary, Assistant Secretary of the Navy F. D. Roosevelt), later on the Tariff Commission and as Internal Revenue Commissioner. From 1921 until after the election of Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 he was a workaday Washington lawyer. Helping to swing his friend Senator McAdoo's delegates from Garner to Roosevelt at Chicago, and being a Southerner, put him in line for the Roosevelt Cabinet. An assiduous politician...
Organizer Lapham acknowledged a debt to Great Britain and Sweden. He recollected that Franklin Roosevelt's commission on British labor practice found effective associations of British employers dealing with unions on a regional basis, observed: "It is evident that the employers learned a good deal as they went along...
Atop Sever Hall workmen are converting an old storeroom into one of the University's finest lecture halls, which will go into commission next semester.
It was the awfullest bus accident anybody ever saw. Sixteen of the 38 children somehow got out alive. But three of them were horribly injured, one dying three days later. Driver Silcox was dead. No bus crash had ever cost so much life; the last biggest at Salem, Ill., March...
In New York and other financial centres last week the Securities & Exchange Commission began cleaning up an international "front money" racket. As uncovered by SEC on the West Coast, the racket works as follows: a broker with a luxurious office advertises he can obtain capital up to $100,000 for...