Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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His Reorganization bill, which six months ago asked for powers to streamline the overlapping, bureau-ridden executive branches of the war government, finally inched past the Senate. But its final form was still uncertain. Both the Senate and the House had made changes that galled the President (e.g., the Senate...
One man who has kept mouse-still while he listened to the squabble over the merger of the armed services is about ready to speak out. Harry Truman has been in favor of the merger for a long time. Last week he turned down Navy Secretary Forrestal's plea...
After ephedrine, what? Benzedrine, said the Maryland Racing Commission. Evidence: the saliva test on Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark's Cosey, winner of the Fairmount Steeplechase Handicap at Pimlico. Result: Mrs. Clark's stable, top steeplechase money-winner of the year, suspended pending hearing-the third ban for doping...
The Federal Communications Commission allocated 400 U.S. television stations, doled them out to cities on a basis of population and area served.-This order heartened television pioneers who feared a free-for-all fight, once receiving sets were on the market. But the best part of the FCC ruling was...
Last week, the Executive Committee of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America produced a new candidate for Dr. Mott's file by approving a statement prepared by its Commission on a Just and Durable Peace. The statement, drafted by Commission Chairman Dr. John Foster Dulles and...