Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At the behest of young, earnest Governor Maurice J. Tobin, Joe Kennedy had become chairman of a "special commission relative to establishing a state department of commerce." His job was to prepare legislation to rejuvenate Massachusetts' rapidly deteriorating industry.
In the shadow of the towering Council of Five (see above), the Executive Committee of the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations Organization buzzed along in London. Its 14 delegates had to decide when & where the first U.N.O.
Once, when friends insisted that a man in his position should own a yacht, he bought a 236-ft. boat for $1,000,000. But he rarely used it, in 1941 finally sold it to the U.S. Maritime Commission for the Navy for $175,000. When a friend asked him...
The Federal Communications Commission has no direct power to censor radio. But its power to revoke a station's license (when it appears necessary "in the public interest") keeps the radio industry worried anyway.
The onetime fighter and wartime Nazi propaganda stooge has an interest in a book-publishing firm; the commission refused the firm a publishing license.