Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Previous commissioners have not always had a good time. Commissioner George F. Zook quit in 1934, after one year, for a job as president of the American Council on Education. The last commissioner, John Ward Studebaker, held the post for 14 years, then (after policy disagreements with new FSA Chief Oscar R. Ewing), resigned in June with the explanation: "I can no longer afford to remain in the Federal Government." Ewing had spent eight months searching for somebody able and willing to fill the job. In spite of all that, Earl McGrath is looking forward to the commissionership...
Teeth. The American Dental Trade Association, which includes makers & sellers of tooth-pulling instruments, faced a little painful dentistry itself. The Federal Trade Commission charged its 144 members with price-fixing and restraint of trade. A.D.T.A. said the charges were "reckless and unfair."
Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Law School, chairman of the special commission hearing the appeal of Dr. Miriam Van Waters for rein-statement, balked an attempt by the prosecution yesterday to introduce state auditor's reports as evidence against the ousted head of the State Reformatory for Women.
He allowed them to be submitted to the commission, but barred them as evidence. The prosecution conceded that there was no suggestion in the reports that funds had been misused at the reformatory.
Earlier in the hearing, Griswold agreed with defense attorney Claude B. Cross, who contended that evidence obtained by the prosecution after Dr. Van Waters was notified of her dismissal should not be accepted. The commission announced that the proceedings must end by March 4. There is no deadline for the...