Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Established last year under the first major civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, the six-member U.S. Civil Rights Commission spent nearly a year getting itself organized, set this week for its first formal hearings. Predictably, it ran right off the bat into something less than Southern hospitality.
...commission's first investigation took it to Montgomery, Ala., to look into charges that Negro voting rights had been violated. But the commissioners found themselves unable to stay together at a Montgomery hotel because one of them, former Assistant Labor Secretary J. Ernest Wilkins, is a Negro. Having found quarters at Maxwell Air Force Base, the group promptly encountered another welcome-mat-turned-stumbling-block. When they tried to subpoena county voting records, they discovered that Circuit Judge George Wallace (who was soundly whipped for Governor this year by equally segregationist-minded Attorney General John Patterson) had impounded...
What the Communists presumably mean by a confederation is an arrangement under which both East and West Germany would retain their present governments and economic systems, and even commitments, but would establish some kind of "federal" parliament or high commission to regulate any trade and relations between the two Germany...
¶Raúl Salinas Lozano, 41, Secretary of Economy. A top economist and Ruiz Cortines' president of the National Commission on Investments, he has written a definitive study entitled Possibilities of Foreign Capital Investments in Mexico.
IT seemed as if the only friend the hapless suburban commuter had last week was a bold, brainy lawyer who started in the railroad business a mere four years ago. The man: Ben Walter Heineman, 44, chairman of the 9,096-mile Chicago & North Western Railway, which inaugurated a new...