Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirty-two-year-old Kennedy represents the eleventh Massachusetts district in the lower house of Congress where he serves on the House Committee for Education and Labor. The son of Joseph P. Kennedy '12, former Chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission and one-time ambassador to England, the Representative covered...
Only the day before, the New York Public Service Commission had hastily granted the Long Island a $3.2 million-a-year boost in its commutation fares, the third boost since 1918. But the Pennsylvania Railroad, which owns the Long Island lock, stock & comic book, had decided to quit footing the...
When it lost money in the next six years, its passengers darkly suspected the Pennsy of milking its stepchild by overcharging for the use of its Manhattan terminal and East River tunnels. In 1940, the Interstate Commerce Commission found some truth in this. It made the Pennsy kick back $5.6...
The recent hearing before Governor Dever's Commission, however, was the exact reverse of the McDowell proceedings. The board was not only impartial, but two of its members were experienced lawyers. Under the competent hand of Dean Griswold, the irrelevancies and absurdities of Dwyer's case were properly tossed out...
The Griswold Commission, of course, was not primarily concerned with McDowell and Dwyer. But the Commission properly noted that McDowell had exceeded his authority in some of his orders to Dr. Van Waters last summer, and that Dwyer's 1948 "investigation" of Framingham "did not create a favorable impression"-- which...