Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mrs. Roosevelt is so busy about so many things that she often has good cause to be late. As chairman of U.N.'s Human Rights Commission, she had been delayed, helping to thrash out a human-rights charter for the world, combining common sense with an air of guilelessness...
"Nobody Is Perfect." In the Human Rights Commission last week, the Soviets' Alexei Pavlov launched one of his routine tirades against the U.S., which usually range far afield to cover the atom bomb, lynching, and warmongering. Up rose Eleanor Roosevelt to make a soft but effective answer: "I do...
This scheme is consistent with the most up to date thinking in education today. Last December President Truman's Commission on Higher Education reported that 49 per cent of the entire United States population was mentally capable of passing the thirteenth and fourteenth grades, or the freshman and sophomore college...
Dies preferred to consider himself beleaguered from left and right, and so did his comrades-at-arms. In 1942, during intense floor debate, veteran Diesman Noah Mason listed the committee's enemies. He named Deatherage, Fritz Kuhn, William Dudley polley, and several groups he claimed were Communist fronts. Then Mason...
William Polk plans to fly to Greece within a month, as soon as the Newsmen's Commission to Investigate the murder of George Polk completes its drive to raise the $10,000 needed for the investigation.