Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Two days later Assistant Secretary of State John Peurifoy announced that ten State Department Civil Service employees had been fired for security reasons-"in the interest of the U.S." This week State, War and Navy Departments and the Atomic Energy Commission asked Congress for permanent authority to fire any employee...
The report of the President's Advisory Commission on Universal Training (TIME, June 9) seemed to have popular approval. Editorial writers largely cheered it, and the latest Gallup poll showed 74% of U.S. citizens in favor of enforced military training for U.S. youths. Bernard Baruch put U.M.T. high on...
James Michael Curley had come full circle, and he looked it. Even before he began his spectacular political career-four terms as Boston's mayor, one term as Massachusetts governor and three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives-Curley had done time for trying to defraud the Civil...
For the Initiated. Without a 'big bank roll, Partisan Review has filled its pages with big-name writers to whom it has offered not money but space: a place to be as highbrow as they like, to talk to their own kind and never mind being intelligible to the...
Neurosurgeons find these candidates hard to discourage. Dr. Leo M. Davidoff, of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, does very few lobotomies, warns patients sternly: "Although surgery is sometimes necessary, it is a barbaric form of therapy." Says Dr. Winfred Overholser, chief of St. Elizabeth's Hospital...