Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"World's Shmoo." Taft and Malone were in a lonely minority. The only real debate came over an amendment which would retain the "peril-point" procedure added to the bill last year by the Republican 80th Congress. Under this provision, the Tariff Commission determines how far a tariff can...
The Veep's Prerogative. Democrats had their answers ready. The peril-point procedure, they said, would induce caution verging on stagnation in the Tariff Commission; how could anybody safely predict a peril point for years in the future? It was also an open invitation to every industry to bring...
...Surrender. Before long Mike had split the Oregon Democratic Party, had demoralized operations at the Multnomah County Courthouse, had gotten involved in bitter feuds with the county commissioners and the Civil Service Commission. But Portland was sure that Mike was cooked at last. By last weekend 29,000 of 30,000 signatures necessary for a recall election had been gathered...
Even condemned murderers in death cells may soon feel the motherly touch of Britain's welfare state. Harley Cronin, general secretary of the Prison Officers' Association, recently wrote as follows to the Prison Commission: "After a long spell of waiting, both the prisoner and the staff get thoroughly...
An autopsy showed that the woman had probably had no more than about three months to live, prompting one official to state privately that her killing "was the humane thing to do." But the inquest also brought out evidence of a criminal offense, "aid . . . in commission of suicide." The government...