Word: commissioner
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As Mayor of Boston, Curley is forever at words points with the Boston Finance Commission. The Commission (or the Fin Com as it is most commonly called) is a five-man board appointed by the governor to keep a constant eye on the city's financial condition. Since the state...
Founding his estimates, in part, on the report of the President's Commission on Higher Education, Harris foresees a downward shift of college graduates' occupational expectancies as the only cure.
At all times, under the current Manager, civil service appointments have gone to the man rated first by the Civil Service Commission. Councilmen have no authority in appointments according to the Plan E Charter. They can of course try to exert pressure on the City Manager.
Senator Robert A. Taft and Congressman Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. '37 will be invited this week to speak on or about December 9 to a rally of students interested in the Hoover Commission's Report on governmental reorganization.
...fill Hanrahan's term as commissioner, which runs until 1952, President Truman last week nominated Edward T. McCormick, 38, a member of the SEC staff for 15 years. Husky, able Accountant Ed McCormick has headed up many an SEC stock flotation inquiry, including that of the Tucker Corp., some of whose officers are under indictment in Chicago (TIME, June 20). Also nominated to the commission to succeed Robert K. McConnaughey, who resigned last summer, was Washington Lawyer Donald C. Cook, 40, onetime SEC staffer, longtime Department of Justice aide. Later, the five-man commission will elect as chairman...