Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Mashed Potatoes Circuit. Without ever taking his eye from his real goal-politics-Humphrey returned to Minnesota and a series of odd jobs: as an instructor at the university, as adult education director for the WPA, and as assistant regional director of the War Manpower Commission. But he also...
Blot on the Record. Everett was no longer defending the Germans, most of whom he believed guilty; he was defending justice. For two years, at his own expense, Everett pleaded his case. Finally, last July 29, an Army commission under Justice Gordon Simpson of the Texas Supreme Court was set...
Last week as he prepared to hand over his job to Father Laurence J. McGinley S.J., of New York, Father Gannon made it clear that he still hopes Fordham will have no part of plans (such as are called for by the President's Commission on Higher Education) for...
In higher education, too, the picture is grim. In 1946, President Truman appointed a commission of educators and public figures to investigate the college scene. The commission reported a year later, and recommended a whopping program of federal aid to colleges. Unless this were done, the commission warned, higher education...
The report of the President's Commission was a huge boost for federal aiders. They cried out more loudly that the educational system was grossly inadequate from top to bottom, and that parts of it were downright rotten. They underscored what the Commission said: that democracy cannot rest on shoddy...