Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regarded in some circles as present liaison man between big business and the administration, John M. Hanes, of the Securities and Exchange Commission, is one of the featured speakers at the eighth annual meeting of the Business School Alumni Association here on Friday and Saturday, June 17 and 18.
But he was born with an urge to protest. At 15, he followed his father into the Socialist Party, and soon he was deep in Leftist ferment. When World War Objector Earl Browder emerged from Leavenworth Penitentiary in 1920, William ZebuIon Foster and "Big Bill" Haywood had splintered away from...
Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins pointed out that Cleveland's work relief rolls have jumped from 20,000 to 70,000, Chicago's from 50,000 to 120,000, in the last five months. Direct relief rolls have also bulged, but here the difficulty was aggravated because Ohio'...
Yellow Jack's story goes from scientific detachment to taut drama, but always with a paucity of heroics, a leavening of lightness and brightness. Fashioned from the Sidney Howard-Paul de Kruif play of 1934. Edward Chodorov's cinema is firmly rooted in facts. It records, against a...
Two months ago, the Legislature passed a bill that was Mr. Merriam's personal solution of the problem. It provided for a State Lands Commission to receive bids; but because it prohibited all drilling except by whip-stocking, the chief company that could submit bids was Standard Oil. Culbert...