Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ Nominated Princeton's Professor Henry DeWolf Smyth, author of the famed Smyth Report on atomic energy, and the University of Southern California's Professor Gordon Evans Dean, onetime law partner of Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon, to fill the existing vacancies on the U.S. Atomic Energy...
Ideally, the foreign ministers should decide to give the United Nations power to regulate the German economy for the good of all Europe. A UN commission of economic experts could tell German industry what to produce and where to sent it; a UN commission could state East-West trade flowing...
"If the commission goes against us," said Mayor Moore, who is also the city magistrate, "we'll appeal. We'll get an injunction. We'll get everyone in Electra down to the station blowing whistles. We'll get a cowboy singer and have him give them...
At week's end, the commission ordered the railroad to go on stopping at Electra until it could examine all evidence and hand down a permanent ruling. Mayor Moore was jubilant-he was certain that no man in his right mind would vote to make the biggest little town...
Though Young's Chesapeake & Ohio railroad has owned 6% of Central stock for two years-in effect, a slim working control-the Interstate Commerce Commission has refused to let him exercise control, or sit on the Central's board, because it is illegal for the same man to...