Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ Appointed James Grover McDonald, 61, a member of the Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry on Palestine in 1946, to be the first U.S. diplomatic envoy to Israel. His title, pending full U.S. recognition of Israel: Special Representative.
The President had vetoed 1) the Reed-Bulwinkle bill, which exempts railroads from antitrust suits for rate agreements, provided the rates are approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission; 2) a bill which would remove 750,000 salesmen and "independent contractors" from social security; and 3) a Labor Department appropriation bill...
> Extended the President's power to make reciprocal trade agreements for one year (instead of three), authorizing the Tariff Commission to determine how much rates could be cut without danger to domestic industry.
A commission of professors-headed by a Frenchman, an Englishman, an American, and a Russian-had finally agreed on a new Outline of History suitable for young German minds. They had carefully ironed out Nazi distortions-and had added some new twists of their own. Soviet Major Vassily Bagrov wanted...
Atomic Power. General Electric Co. announced that it will build an experimental atomic power plant to be completed in two to five years. In the plant G.E. hopes to use heat from atomic fission to run electric generating equipment. The builder: the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, which G.E. operates for...