Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Manhattan last week, 230-lb. Tony Galento-also known as Two-Ton Tony, the Jersey Nightstick, the TNT Kid, the One-Man Riot and the "beer barrel that walks like a man"-achieved something of a moral victory when he faced Heavyweight Nathan Mann, a fairly well-rated boxer...
¶ Relaunched its stalled drive to establish minimum coal prices. Last December the Bituminous Coal Commission established a set of minima, but after coalmen brought suit, charging the Commission's methods were too dictatorial, these minima were shelved, B. C. C. Chairman Charles Franklin Hosford Jr. resigned and there...
Four months of bitter rivalry between A. F. of L. locals and the inside union in their struggle to organize the employees of the University for the first time in history will be settled once and for all when eight units of workers go to the polls under the supervision...
...since he is not willing to make accusations against a radio monopoly until one is proved, there is a likelihood that Mr. McNinch will at any rate oppose the bill's domestic broadcasting provision. Hopefully the industry looks forward to Mr. McNinch's stringing along with Commissioner Case in the belief that "we had better hold on to what we have until we get something better," that U. S. broadcasting in its present state is worth holding on to and that the industry and the Commission had better go ahead together slowly...
¶ Put under way the Federal Trade Commission investigation of the automobile industry. In charge was FTC Economist Dr. Francis Walker with $50,000 expenditure authorized.