Word: commissioner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
¶ In Rumania, the Soviet-dominated "interministerial commission," rubber-stamping a promise made by the Moscow meeting, voted to end censorship. Next day one or two papers blossomed forth with editorials in favor of civil liberties. And the next day one newspaper was wholly suppressed for 15 days and two...
The trucemakers-Government General Chang Chun, Communist General Chou Enlai, U.S. General of the Army George Catlett Marshall-had agreed on three points: 1) all hostilities would cease immediately; 2) all troop movements would also cease, except in Manchuria and south of the Yangtze, where Government sovereignty is unchallenged; 3...
One of the wonderers was in Hollywood itself. Last week a dark-&-handsome, soft-spoken young Navy lieutenant named Paul Frederic Heard rushed to finish some Navy teaching films so that he could take on a job of Protestant movie production and pressagentry. He would be secretary of the newly...
When asked if the Commission would try to propagate Protestant analogues of Going My Way, etc., Heard answered: That is definitely one of our aims. . . . We will try to find a way to dramatize what the minister calls 'the Christian way of life.' "
Last September, the corporation sold its first stock (1,700,000 shares) at $10 a share. In the booming stockmarket it climbed slowly to $15 a share in over-the-counter trading. On Jan. 3, the corporation announced plans to float an additional issue of 1,800,000 shares, asked...