Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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All these slings Johnson bore in tight-lipped silence. Then, with little advance warning, he showed up last week as the only congressional leader at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. unemployment rally in Washington's armory (see The Economy), drew roars by roasting the Administration for rejecting "prudent proposals to expand...
For hours, the back-to-workers whooped and hollered at predictably anti-Administration speeches from such Democrats as Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson (who announced his plan for a legislative-executive commission on unemployment to report in 60 days) and Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas (President Eisenhower, "the kindly Kansan...
Led by Old Bolshevik Juan Marinello, Cuba's Communist Party, which got back into business the day Batista fell, is today at the peak of its influence. Its 24,000 members form the only active political party on the island. Card carriers or sympathizers in key civilian spots include...
THE New York Stock Exchange spends more than $1,000,000 a year educating the U.S. public on the benefits of stock ownership. But last week the exchange was worried about all the new stockholders it has signed up and the kind of stocks they buy. The exchange increased its...
Wall Street's concern, as voiced in its ads, is all to the good. But the Street and the corporations it serves can do a great deal more to curb uninformed speculation by their own efforts, instead of wagging a finger at the public. When irresponsible rumors boom a...