Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was an intimate affair; just the Senate president pro tem, Arthur Vandenberg, Senate Majority Leader Wallace White, Speaker Joe Martin, House Majority Leader Charles Halleck and the two Democratic minority leaders, Alben Barkley and Sam Rayburn.* After 50 minutes' non-controversial conversation about war surpluses, the Maritime Commission...
Long range bull sessions are not so colorful as the discussions conducted in college rooms, the broadcasters complain, since the Federal Communications Commission slaps a $5000 fine on any amateur heard "swearing" or using "indecent language." As a result, one student calls most of his radio conversations "extremely dull."
¶ Communism, the N.Y. Council of C.I.O., the first NLRB, OPA, socialized medicine, universal military training, ¶ The Fair Employment Practice Commission. ("Racial discrimination is a serious problem . . . but force is not the answer.")
Some 60 doctors, judges and other experts, gathered at the Academy to consider the report, agreed that it was high time medics recognized alcoholism as a disease. The conferees, headed by grizzled old Anton J. Carlson, famed University of Chicago physiologist, resolved that: 1) New York should create a state...
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, Vice Premier and leader of the combined opposition, gave the number of imprisoned candidates as 104. The National Electoral Commission rejected appeals to free the candidates, "because it is a matter for the security authorities."