Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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All U.S. good-neighborly schemes are not tainted with boondoggling. One such scheme clicked smartly last week: the Peruvian Government was so pleased with the Inter-American Development Commission's job in creating a local crafts industry that it took over the project, lock, stock & barrel. What's...
A lank, soft-spoken Californian named Truman Bailey could take the commission's bows. Back in 1942 he had found that the only decent Peruvian artifacts were buried in museums. Most stores sold shoddy, cast silverware and tritely patterned blankets. Bailey, who had acquired a ripe background digging the...
In regard to the Subcommission on the Status of Women of the Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations Economic & Social Council (whew!)-in regard to their adoption of the principle: "Woman is as much a human being as man" [TIME, May 20], let me say: Woman is more...
Silver-haired Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch was visibly proud of his role. As U.N. Secretary Trygve Lie handed over the temporary chairmanship of U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission, Baruch prefaced his proposals with a touching passage: "I was moved," he said, "in the afternoon - shall I say, in...
Something for All. Most of the industrial planning is done by a commission headed by an imported British socialist, George W. Cadbury (TIME, Jan. 14), who thinks all Canada will go socialist some day. Working with him is energetic Joe Phelps, head of CCF's Natural Resources Department.