Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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News wires soon burned with the flash that a giant rockfall had plunged from the brink of the American Falls. Buffalo hastily reported that the shock had registered on the seismograph of Canisius College. An engineer of the Niagara park commission estimated the break to be 125 feet across and...
The great maritime strike which had immobilized the nation's merchant fleet for 17 days (TIME, Sept. 23) ended last week. James L. Fly, onetime head of the Federal Communications Commission, acting as arbitrator, engineered this settlement of the complex wage dispute: ship owners would pay the unions exactly...
The Merger. In their long, low-ceilinged meeting room in Houston Hall, the 150-man House of Bishops sat in maple chairs before rough little tables-an impressive phalanx of white hair, black clothes and informal dignity. Into their hands last week was put the nettle of Episcopal-Presbyterian union...
The bishops' palms were no tougher than the deputies'. In two hours of debate they passed the lower-house resolution with but one mild amendment (to ask the 1948 Lambeth Conference for "advice & counsel" instead of a new commission).
High churchmen, however, took a different view. To them the Joint Commission's report had looked more like a proposal for their Church's liquidation than for its union. These saw the convention's turndown as no evasion but a prerequisite for any real first step toward...