Word: commissioner
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Main targets of the Tribune article, written by ace reporter Frank Hughes, were the members of the Commission on Freedom of the Press, a private group established in 1946 to study American Journalism.
Last week, with the air of a man who had stood for such nonsense long enough, President Miguel Alemán announced that his government would spend $88 million in the next two years to overhaul Mexico's railways. His plan (prepared by a special commission appointed last February...
Dr. Charles S. Cameron, medical and scientific director of the American Cancer Society, which supports Huggins' work ($74,485 last year, $89,600 this year), enthusiastically said that the test had "great value" and could be made in any clinical laboratory. Dr. Shields Warren, director of the Atomic Energy...
One of the shortest railroads in the U.S. is the little Ohio & Morenci, which hauls freight 20.2 mi. from Berkey, Ohio to Morenci, Mich. About six months ago, the Ohio & Morenci petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to go out of business: there just wasn't enough traffic...
Novelist Tom Lea's father was mayor of El Paso, Tex., and he grew up among ranchers. Lea, however, became no cattle-raising Texan; he became an artist. As such, on commission for LIFE, he landed on Peleliu in September 1944, with an assault wave of U.S. marines and...