Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One night last week, while shots rang in the distance, a little man hurried furtively through the streets of Jerusalem with a parcel under his arm. He stopped at the house where the advance party (two men and two women) of the United Nations Palestine Commission was staying. Glancing quickly...
The great Church of England, like the great nation to which it belongs, is famed for its ability to reconcile apparent irreconcilables. In 1946 the Archbishops of Canterbury and York appointed a commission to consider the great problem of our time-total war and the atom bomb. Last week their...
Is war ever justified? Yes, says the commission, when it is undertaken: 1) to redress a grave injury committed by another state; 2) to defend one's country against attack; 3) to help a belligerent "whose cause . . . [one] believes to be just." But, the report adds, war must be...
¶ The Atomic Energy Commission continued experiments with rutin, a complex chemical compound obtained from green buckwheat. In experiments with dogs at the University of Rochester, it reduced the death rate from radiation from 64% to 12% by checking internal bleeding, one of the effects of radiation.
Picking Up Butts. It was Rocky Graziano's return to the ring after nine months of exile. Banned in New York for failing to report a bribe offer, banned in Illinois and 13 other states as a wartime deserter, he had gone to the Washington boxing commission and explained...