Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ Approved 356 to 9 the Reorganization Bill, which would enable the President to shake up the Executive Department as proposed by the Hoover Commission.
Home Industries. In Concord, N.H., the State Planning & Development Commission hastened to squelch some ugly rumors with a press release: "... There is no connection between New Hampshire's reputation as [an] outstanding ski state and the fact that [we make] 75% of all wooden crutches."
The case thus far rests on technicalities. Public feeling does not however, and if the decision of the Griswold Commission is against Dr. Van Waters, unless important now evidence in introduced, most of Massachusetts is going to be ashamed and sorry to lose her
...vicious series of incredible attacks in the press upon a woman who is undoubtedly one of the greatest social workers in the United States. Following these attacks, Miriam Van Waters was dismissed on January 11 as superintendent of the Women's Reformatory at Framingham by her superior, Commissioner of Correction McDowell. She demanded --and got--a special hearing to clear her record, but under a strange sort of law, this hearing was conducted before the Commissioner himself. McDowell was therefore judge, jury, and prosecutor; his decision last Friday to sustain his original findings was hardly surprising...
...most of McDowell's charges are based on technical violations occurring in the 1932-1948 period before he became Commissioner. Every other Commissioner since Dr. Van Waters was appointed fully approved these acts, and it would therefore seem unjust to charge them against her now. If the Grisweld Commission decides that these pre-McDowell acts are relevant, the Commissioner's otherwise puny case will be considerably strengthened, and Dr. Van Waters can be prevented from carrying on her work...