Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The President's plan was based on the Railway Labor Disputes Act, which has worked successfully to stave off labor trouble on the railroads for 19 years. It called for the establishment of a fact-finding commission-probably three members-who would investigate any major strike on the President...
For a 30-day cooling-off period, no strike could be called. The commission's findings would not be legally binding on the company or the union, the President said, but he hoped that public opinion would force both parties to accept them.
When the defense rested, the task of the trial commission no longer seemed simple. Yamashita's spirited defense had suddenly emphasized the lack of precedent for war crimes trials, the vagueness of the charges-violation of the rules of war. The commission had other problems. What was Yamashita-a...
But winter racing's sunny prospects couldn't quite cut the fog that hung over the just ended northern season. With two big-name trainers, Tom Smith and Dolly Byers, already charged with doping horses, the Maryland Racing Commission decided to check further. It consulted a new saliva...
Deactivation, Mundorff pointed out, means a return to the pre-war naval reserve program for civilians which was first inaugurated at Harvard in 1926. Under it any undergraduate could take courses in naval science, and if he qualified physically and academically, he would receive with his degree, an ensign's...