Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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As drafted by South Carolina's Byrnes -who helped conduct the fight against the Court Plan-the Reorganization Bill 1) empowers the President to reshuffle any or all of the 100-odd agencies under the executive branch; 2) calls for a single Civil Service Administrator instead of a three...
U. S. educators are much concerned with recreation, because what a nation does with its leisure is an index of its character and culture. Five years ago Northwestern University and the Chicago Recreation Commission began a monumental study, costing $250,000 (most of it supplied by WPA), of public and...
¶ In San Francisco the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Securities & Exchange Commission rule that the issuer of stock may not avoid registering it with SEC merely by limiting the offering to company stockholders. The case grew out of an attempt by small, unimportant Sunbeam Gold Mines...
According to Governor Martin of Oregon, the southwestern corner of that State "has greater potential values than any other undeveloped section of the U. S." Crammed with 4,000-foot mountain chains, this wilderness has only three connections with civilization-a highway up the coast and 50 miles inland a...
On Labor Day, 1935, Promoter Gable gathered all of Oregon's bigwigs for the dedication. Dressed in dark silk shirt, riding breeches and boots, Emperor Gable was master of ceremonies, read a speech in which the instruction "chuckle" was written at appropriate spots. Said he: "I find myself shrinking...