Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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He comes to Littauer with an amazingly diversified background in his field. Most recently a vice-president of the Ford Foundation, Price has worked for the first Hoover Commission, the Budget Bureau, the Defense Department, the Central Housing Committee and the Public Administration Clearing House. These activities have led to...
In addition to a Presidential Commission, Furcolo will also ask the New England Conference of Governors for its support in persuading colleges and accrediting groups to accept the proposals. Press secretary Wilton Vaugh '20, said yesterday. Harris is an advisor to the conference.
Governor Furcolo presented a proposal to increase the size of classes in American colleges, made recently by Seymour E. Harris '20, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, to President Eisenhower Sunday. He urged that a Presidential Commission study the plan.
Fashionable Roman Sculptor Renato Signorini said that he had accepted a gilt-edged commission from Monaco's Prince Rainier: an 18-carat solid-gold bust of Princess Grace. Buckling down to three months of "very patient work," Signorini grandly measured the value of his work-to-be: "Priceless."
Organizer John Rosengrant of the Presbyterians' Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations summed it up: "When Americans go overseas, they should be able to demonstrate that their lives are centered in a basic Christian philosophy. A Christian should live his values wherever he goes."