Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For one of the few times in his presidency, there was nothing on Harry Truman's desk that required urgent action. His chief unfinished business-other than backing up Jimmy Byrnes at Paris-was filling some top Administration vacancies. He had at least one good candidate around: Wisconsin'...
Unless war can be abolished, the U.S. officially informed the U.N. last week, the only recourse of peace-loving nations against aggressors using atomic bombs will be to develop bigger & better atomic bombs. The announcement was made in Scientific Information, Volume I of Bernard M. Baruch's report to...
When the National War Labor Board granted Western Union Telegraph Co. employes a 21% wage raise last year, the company went deep into the red. That made no difference to WLB. So Western Union appealed to the Federal Communications Commission, which granted a 10% overall boost in rates for one...
Died. Dr. William Henry Joseph Walker, 67, pudgy elder brother of New York City's ex-Mayor Jimmie Walker, who as physician for the New York State Athletic Commission listened to the heartbeat of every big-time boxer in the last quarter century; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
Cried a commission man at Chicago's Union Stockyards: "It was like having the deliriums. You might as well ask a steer to read the newspaper as try to figure out what would happen."