Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A few days later, the Senate Commerce Committee turned thumbs down on the President's nomination of Raymond S. McKeough. onetime New Dealing Congressman and defeated Senate candidate (1942) of Illinois' Kelly-Nash machine, to be a member of the U.S. Maritime Commission. If the Senate followed through...
Not until last week did Harry Truman get around to his promised reorganization of the Government's labor functions. Then, with the battle well under way, he incorporated the War Labor Board, the U.S. Employment Service and the War Manpower Commission into Secretary Lew Schwellenbach's reviving Labor...
Ed Stettinius, chief U.S. delegate to the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations Organization, was only half successful in his efforts to speed up U.N.O.'s timetable in London. At the rate the Council of Foreign Ministers was drafting treaties, U.N.O. would be organized in time to enforce them...
Elman started auctioning freak items on Hobby Lobby as a war-bond stunt. Soon, as Victory Auction, it was a show of its own, sold over $250,000,000 worth of bonds. The Treasury got his permission to imitate the idea. Now Elman is putting Auction to postwar profit. He...
Short Careers. The U.S. Maritime Commission put up for sale, as junk, four Liberty ships war-damaged beyond repair. Two of them had been torpedoed, one had been bombed, one had crashed into another vessel, was gutted by fire. If the ships are bought for scrap, purchasers must agree to...