Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the aid of the Newsmens' Commission to Investigate the Murder of George Polk, William Polk has already raised $1,500 in cash and $6,000 in pledges of the $10,000 necessary to send himself and two others to Greece for a six-week investigation of the killing.
Polk reports that the Newsmen's Commission has been promised substantial additional contributions if the Burean of Internal Revenue acts favorably on its application to have contributions declared deductable from taxable income.
Here's how it will be done: each program will be prepared by an individual working group, consisting of students plus at least one faculty adviser whose speciality is that particular field. A dramatic presentation of the problem at hand will be broadcast one week, followed by a round table...
U.S. military intelligence had become suspicious of Hiskey, found that he held a reserve commission in the Army, had him called up and sent to duty on the Canol project in the Yukon, where "he counted underwear." The committee recommended that Hiskey, his exwife, Marcia, Chapin, and the missing Adams...
¶ Wyoming's State Aeronautics Commission asked for a law making it a misdemeanor to fly an airplane while drunk.