Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Teetotaling, non-smoking Arthur Flemming never takes off his coat or his dignity at staff meetings. But Civil Service Commission staffers like his insistence on group decisions. In 1939, when 34-year-old Republican Flemming was named by President Roosevelt to the Commission, he became the second youngest member in...
The General. But Franklin Roosevelt had no intention of letting so promising a candidate disappear. In 1944, the President wanted a man to be his eyes & ears in occupied Italy; he sent O'Dwyer to the Allied Control Commission, a brigadier general with the rank of minister.
From all over Louisiana loud cries of anguish went up from business and labor. In New Orleans Chep Morrison called an emergency session of the City Commission and complained: "We don't understand why the people of New Orleans should be persecuted."
...First. The Federal Communications Commission prepared to receive its first woman member: blonde, 43-year-old Frieda B. Hennock, a Manhattan corporation lawyer, who was named last week by President Truman -to succeed Commissioner Clifford J. Durr, who resigned. (She still has to be confirmed by the Senate.) Polish-born, Bronx-bred Miss Hennock was the youngest woman (21) ever admitted to the New York bar. A graduate of Brooklyn Law School, she hopes to represent the women who "comprise radio's biggest audience...
Trustless Rails? The Senate passed and sent to the White House the Bulwinkle Bill to exempt railroads and other common carriers from antitrust prosecution in connection with agreements on rates (but not on services, facilities, etc.) which are approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission. President Truman is expected to veto...