Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ben Davis was the first Negro ever commissioned from the ranks of the U.S. Army. A tightlipped, light-skinned man, he left Howard University for a temporary first lieutenancy during the Spanish-American War. When it ended, he signed on as a private, fought his way up to sergeant, ranked...
Thus last week the soldiers of Britain's youngest dominions shot it out with each other for the favors of the beautiful, fabled State of Kashmir lying between them. Neither side was willing to admit that it was war. To a U.N. commission on hand seeking for a way...
Last week, while the U.N. commission tried to find a way out for Kashmir, Correspondent Lubar conducted an informal poll by asking a Kashmiri if he knew what Pakistan was. He answered: "The place that belongs to Jinnah." Did he know what India was? "Yes, the place that belongs to...
¶ "The commission never misses a chance to communicate the news that our educational institutions are far too intellectual. This will certainly surprise the students, parents, teachers, administrators who have had anything to do with our educational system. To the disinterested observer, the American educational system looks like a gigantic...
A homespun diplomat with a New Hampshire twang, portly "Whit" Whittemore milked cows as a boy in Pembroke, later tried railroading, sat on the New Hampshire tax commission, and ran. a lumber business. In 1929 he joined the Boston & Maine Railroad, became assistant to the president.