Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One of the nation's humblest men is New York's Frank Costello, who doesn't want anyone to think that he is as influential as everybody says he is. When California's Commission on Organized Crime recently identified him as the probable head of a...
When the news hit, the telephone operators in Arco's one-room exchange above the Dee Hotel plugged in every line in Butte County, ringing telephones all up & down the Big Lost River Valley. A man from Pocatello, who had just been offered a one-story building for $10...
Last year, said Joe O'Connell, the Post Office paid the airlines $94 million in mail pay; in 1949 the bill might run to $125 million. This, he conceded, "is not small change by any means. On the other hand, it is considerably less than what we are spending...
A bill giving President Truman broad powers to revamp the government, but making it easier for Congress to nullify his reorganization plans, was approved yesterday by a Senate Committee. Truman had asked reorganization powers and his request was supported by former president Herbert Hoover whose commission on reorganization submitted its...
The current trial of 12 Communnist Party leaders in New York is "A trial of a philosophy and a body of principles," C. V. Jerome, Chairman of the Communist Party's Cultural Commission, charged last night.