Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Albion's interest is the sea. He was born in Malden but managed to grow up on Maine's Casco Bay; by World War I his seafaring ancestry was showing its effect, and Albion joined the Naval Reserve. After what he calls a "delightful" series of training eruises, Albion...
...active in Russian affairs. He served on many American missions to Europe and was President Roosevelt's interpreter during White House Conferences with Foreign Minister Molotov in 1942. After World War I he was detailed to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace and also served as American Trade Commissioner to Belgium in the early...
Sponsored by the Newsman's Commission to Investigate the Murder of George Polk, Polk left the United States April 5 for Salonika, Greece, the scene of the CBS correspondent's murder and the subsequent trial.
Sculptor Jo Davidson, who has modeled heads of Franklin Roosevelt, Mohandas Gandhi, Albert Einstein and Frank Sinatra, wound up a commission in Belgrade, put the finishing touches on a bust of Marshal Tito.
"Where the Church is living, it must ask itself whether it is serving this commission or whether it is a purpose in itself? If the second is the case, then as a rule it begins to smack of the 'sacred,' to affect piety, to play the priest and...