Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside a Senate committee room, newsmen clowned around with a stuffed moose head which someone had found under the stairs. They were waiting for the Senate's Special Committee on Atomic Energy to finish crossing the t's and dotting the i's on one of the...
The commission would consist of a chairman ($17,500 a year) and four other civilians ($15,000) appointed by the President, subject to Senate approval. They would serve staggered five-year terms and would devote themselves exclusively to the commission's tasks.
Russian Delegate Andrei Gromyko, making his second appearance since his walkout, was particularly gay. The Soviet Purchasing Commission had just bought the $1 million Long Island estate pf deceased capitalist George Dupont Pratt for a reported $120,000 (see INTERNATIONAL) . He himself had received a box of flowers from an...
The temperature in New Delhi rose to 107°. The Cabinet Commission prepared for a brief Easter holiday in cool Kashmir. Then they would return to sweltering Delhi and its sizzling political issues.
While critics of soap opera and windy commercials discussed what was wrong with the soul of U.S. radio, the patient's body grew & grew. In the calendar year 1944, reported the Federal Communications Commission, the nine networks and 875 standard broadcast stations in the U.S. and its possessions had...