Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Malaya for Whom? In Singapore a British fact-finding commission examined the biggest knot of all, firmly tied by British imperialists who for the last 60 years have imported foreign labor to work their tin mines and rubber plantations. Now more than two million Chinese and some 750,000 Indians...
During the war the tremendous volume of rail traffic alone saved the roads' bacon, boosted revenue faster than operating costs. But last year traffic began to slacken, has fallen off so much this year that operating revenues will be 23% below 1945. In this crisis, the roads wanted the...
With this in mind, the Commission is expected to go slow on the biggest financial decision in its history.
An interested spectator of these, and 14 similar transactions, was the Securities & Exchange Commission's chief watchdog, James Aloysius Treanor Jr., a husky, hardworking lawyer who caught the eye of SEC by the way he had run an FCC investigation of the telephone system. He joined SEC as a...
Even the charge that Stalin poisoned Lenin is linked to the fact that during the Purge trials Stalin convicted his NKVD chief, Henry Yagoda, of poisoning Novelist Maxim Gorky and Soviet Control Commission Chairman Valerian Kuibyshev (as if President Truman were to charge FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover with poisoning...