Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since his beginnings in a Cedar Rapids parsonage, Merlin Hall Aylesworth has been a salesman. Out of University of Denver Law School, he exercised his powers of persuasion so effectively that he became an almost miraculous collector of bad bills for doctors. Soon he sold himself for the job...
Stocky, hard-driving Dr. Maier is a Fundamentalist, gets his fan mail from Bible readers. Last week, in a broadcast sermon at a Lutheran Rally in Manhattan, he lit into an organization which many of his fellow Fundamentalists view with alarm-the Federal Council of Churches. Denouncing it as "one...
¶ The Federal Trade Commission has been investigating the possible existence of price-fixing and collusion in the cement industry for several months. Last week Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. announced that just to be on the safe side President Roosevelt had ordered that cement purchasing by all...
...Commissioner Walker's 1,100 pages of indictment and proposals are the result of three years' investigation. They would still be the Commission's secret had not the Commission learned that communication circles had somehow "tapped its wires." Rather than give A. T. & T. a chance to prepare a counterpunch while FCC studied the report, lively little Chairman Frank R. McNinch decided to make Commissioner Walker's findings public at once. But he specifically told Congress that it "is not a report by the Commission, but is instead a report submitted to the Commission...
Most citizens of East Texas look on the Connally "Hot Oil" Act of 1935 (which makes it a Federal offense to ship in interstate commerce more oil than the quotas set up by the Texas Railroad Commission) with the same sort of amused tolerance with which they once looked on...