Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The week's work was a breeze. The President combined social affairs (see The Capital) with business (principal item: a labor arbitration plan for the building industry), and had time left over to think about a bill which would prevent top officials from taking along government documents (such as...
They couldn't have timed it worse. The sport pages were dripping with the evils of commercialism. Last week, Middleweight Rocky Graziano, whose conversation usually ranges from "Yeah" to "Nunhh," was quoted at length "in his own words" about being offered a $100,000 bribe. The New York State...
Among the former students and friends with contributions in the book are former Pound pupil Julius Stone of the University of Sydney and Lord Wright, Chairman of the U. N. War Crimes Commission, called the "greatest of the judges in England today," by Dean Pound.
Rocky said he didn't take the money. He said he couldn't remember who it was who had propositioned him (except that it was the one who had tried to bribe him once before). Rocky feigned a backache to get the fight called off. A New York...
Neutra, who has the pointed eyebrows and sharp beak of a silvery owl, often gets up in the pre-dawn blackness of 4 a.m. to blue-print his ideas. He will travel anywhere to make sure his buildings fit the landscape, the people and the weather. Last week he got...