Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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By this year Oregon's pronghorn herd had risen from the 1911 figure of 2,000 to almost 20,000. Last week the State Game Commission opened a five-day pronghorn hunting season outside its refuge, the first since 1911, limiting hunters to one horned animal of either sex...
This week the Duke of Gloucester breaks sod on a hill outside Kampala, capital of Buganda, principal kingdom of Uganda, for the stone buildings of Makerere College for Higher Education, first all-Negro university in East Africa. Recommended by a Royal Commission on Higher Education, the university will speak English...
While in Africa, the Commission collected fine specimens of big game and some damaging facts about Britain's ''trusteeship'' of backward peoples. Example: Government provision of primary schools is so inadequate that of the 720,000 children between the ages of five and 15 in...
...Commissioners were concerned, however, with the present shortage of women fit to be mates of prospective Makerere alumni. Afraid that tribal wenches may undo the effects of higher education, the Commission suggested that facilities for giving a sound secondary school education to a limited number of young females be immediately provided. When this provision has been made, students at Makerere will be advised to marry during their college careers. Reason: "To preserve their morals...
> Launched a new attack upon basing-point price systems. The Federal Trade Commission already has three basing-point cases in the works-against the Cement Institute, the United Fence Manufacturers Association and the Cast Iron Soil Pipe Association. Each of these complaints has charged violation both of the Robinson-Patman...