Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At Lake Success last week, forlornly huddled at one end of a vast committee room, the Atomic Energy Commission held its first meeting since September. It set up a control committee to go ahead with the '"majority plan" (the U.S. plan), blueprinting the structure and operations of an international...
While she bustled about the kitchen, M. Paul Miville-Dechêne, the Quebec Liquor Commission's chief accountant (at about $5,000 a year), was looking forward to the midnight Mass. A reserve lieutenant colonel and commander of the Régiment de Quêbec, le p...
Meals at Midnight. Kirkpatrick keeps his 30-dog kennel on a lot about two miles from the track. At 7 a.m., his trainer and two assistants take each pooch for a walk. Then the dogs have their toenails pedicured, get combed and rubbed. At 10:30, the dogs are put...
The answers did not satisfy Ryan. He got permission from the Securities and Exchange Commission to take the first move in a proxy fight in which he hoped to oust Sosthenes Behn. Ryan estimated that he, his family and his friends already had behind them over 1,000,000 shares...
Reporter Irwin Rosten confronted each repairman with a portable radio "in perfect operating condition" except for a simple short circuit "in plain view." Some shops recommended repairs ("practically no two alike"): "a new condenser," "a short in the transformer," "a realignment job," "the oscillator is out of whack." Range of...