Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The big burghers, with their starched ruffs, plump cheeks and fierce little beards, annoyed Rembrandt. They paid through the nose for his fine likenesses. Rembrandt had other ambitions than painting portraits: he was obsessed with a desire to portray light. When a Captain Banning Cocq went to him with a...
As the small hours lengthened, A. P. and U.P., badgered by their home offices, put out their own incautious flashes hanging all eleven Nazis, but quickly killed the flashes. The chosen eight newsmen who were in at the deaths knew about Göring - but the Allied Control Commission kept...
Leavell, who fills the chair of Public Health practice which the death of Dr. Edward G. Huber last July left vacant, held, just prior to his Rockefeller post, a deputy directorship of health in the European office of UNRRA. Snyder, to occupy a chair of Public Health Bacteriology, is noted...
Thomas E. Dewey ran into an embarrassing shortage problem last week. A year ago, the sympathetic Tacoma (Wash.) Athletic Commission found the Governor a hard-to-get toilet seat for the Executive Mansion, sent it to him posthaste. But now the commissioners, building new quarters, were confronted with an identical shortage. Red-faced but resolute, they sent for their toilet seat...
Owning up to the fact that it had been a bad boy, the War Assets Administration last week grabbed itself by the scruff of the neck, and shook itself violently. It shook out 32 out of 89 key employes in one of its major sales divisions and canceled 32 contracts...