Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Big Ed sweated and squirmed as he admitted that he had played the commodities game. But he tried to play the whole thing down. His "little transactions," he said, "were peanuts in the whole scheme of things . . . something less than $1,000,000." It was true that he had been...
Future developments in the technique of precipitating clouds may enable weather scientists to control the climate of whole countries, or even continents. "But," says Dr. C. Guy Suits, General Electric's director of research, "until the legal problems are clarified, there will be great difficulty in carrying out large...
In Geneva, at the Commission on Human Rights, Eleanor Roosevelt diagnosed the basic ailment. Americans, she thought, "are not completely sure of our ability to make democracy work."
This time Railroader Robert R. Young, who likes to dish it out, had to take it. In a report last week, Interstate Commerce Commission Examiner Charles Edward Boles thumbed down Young's plea to join the board of New York Central Railroad Co., and, in effect, control it by...
The colleges and universities that fear expansion, the graduate schools that discriminate, the conservative professional groups determined to keep their numbers small, the mis-guided advocates of southern dual education, the born-too-late liberals that can defeat the best intended and most soundly are the diverse elements that can...