Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beset by an incorruptible, court-appointed board of monitors and by U.S. Senator John McClellan's labor-rackets investigators, Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa last summer bought a bright stunt thought up by his lawyers*: Why not set up an investigating commission of his own? Promptly named as chairman of...
Verbal Report. Bender proved equally diligent at wielding a whitewash brush. Breaking an understanding with the other two commission members-a Detroit judge and a Washington lawyer-Bender went ahead on his own, using an investigative method roughly comparable to trying to solve a murder case by going to an...
¶ The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad asked the New Jersey Public Utilities Commission for permission to drop 40 suburban passenger trains, citing lower freight revenues which fail to support suburban passenger losses.
¶ The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered the Lehigh Valley Railroad Co. to maintain passenger service on its 1,130-mile system up to four months after the Jan. 12 abandonment date proposed by the road while it investigates whether the service should be continued.
At almost the moment that Goldfine was being fingerprinted and bailed out ($1,000) of the capital's Federal Court Building until a March 16 trial, another contempt decision was being logged in Boston. U.S. District Judge Charles Wyzanski Jr. found Goldfine and faithful Secretary Mildred Paperman guilty of...