Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But no one supposed Palestine's violence would be ended by such mortal arithmetic. Yesterday's hopes and anger were forgotten in today's new fears. Forgotten was the United Nations' inquiry commission. And forgotten, for the moment, were the 4,500 Jews defiantly refusing to...
That had always been the Western idea: everybody had a right to speak his piece, and anybody had the right to be wrong. Unfortunately, behind the grand Miltonian facade, scalawags could and did bore from within. Last week a 20th Century philosopher tried to get at the termites without tearing...
In a report on radioisotopes, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission devoted one sentence to this matter: ". . . should an atomic war occur, it would be essential that as many scientists as possible be trained in the technique of working with radioactive material."
Few campaign promises have been better kept than that of the Republicans to begin the Eightieth Congress with a prayer and end it with a probe. Scarcely a day of the session passed that did not witness exploratory jabs into some phase of the past or present activities of the...
Then, at the triennial general convention in Philadelphia last fall (TIME, Sept. 23), the canon was "liberalized." Under the new rules, divorced church members who wanted to be remarried in the church could apply to the bishop of the diocese after one year, and the bishop could decide, under certain...