Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver is fighting the nomination of sometime (1953-58) Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis L. Strauss as Commerce Secretary, has requested a hearing during the Senate Commerce Committee's pro forma session on the nomination. Kefauver, aiming to keep the home folks happy...
¶ Pakistan has kept its firm Western alignment, but Ayub has gone to unprecedented lengths to soothe his country's bitter quarrel with India. He has stilled the strident propaganda of the country's radios, last month became the first Pakistani leader to attend the Indian High Commission...
Two-miler Dyke Benjamin, out with a painful leg injury for most of the winter, will return to action tonight in a courageous attempt to aid the Crimson cause. In winning the mile against B.U. Dec. 13, Benjamin incurred a stress fracture in his lower leg that kept him out...
The station's attempt, however, to move to channel 289 involved it in a conflict with WKOX of Framingham, seeking an adjoining channel, and forced WHRB into prolonged hearings before the Communications Commission in Washington. As a result the station decided in December to apply for channel 237 instead. Approval...
But McCone touched a sensitive committee nerve almost at once by saying that "efforts during the past five years have paid off in remarkable progress. I believe we have had a good program." Snapped Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore, author of a bill to spend $1 billion on...