Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Trustee. A second choice but a first-rate man, Gordon Gray is an heir to part of the ripe, golden R. J. Reynolds tobacco (Camels) fortune. His father put young Gordon to work in the leaf houses and at the cigarette machines, but Gordon didn't like the...
When they got back to mustering-out camp in Virginia, Preston asked his young aide to take a permanent Army commission. But McCloy was already haunting the law libraries. Last week the general, now 85 and retired in Palo Alto (Calif.), described the scene: "One evening McCloy came to eat...
This sentence, included in one of the most significant statements on U.S. education in a decade, made big headlines last week for a report on American Education and International Tensions, published by the Educational Policies Commission* of the National Education Association.
The commission's reasoning, and the professional eminence of the men who made the report, was sure to have a deep effect on U.S. educational policies. Yet the principle was also sure to encounter problems of enforcement. Said the New York Post: "Communist teachers conceal their affiliations. How can...
The investors in Tucker had only themselves to blame; the Securities & Exchange Commission had said practically the same thing when it blew the whistle on Tucker's initial effort to sell stock.