Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paris government last year did its best to suppress, a commission composed of some of France's most distinguished civil servants, doctors, diplomats and soldiers stated, among many examples of brutality and injustice, that on three occasions Moslem "suspects" were locked up for the night in empty wine cellars...
Obligingly had Florida's Bade County Metro Commission voted to legalize gambling in the Miami area after ex-Heavyweight Champ Jack Dempsey, 63. now a heavy 250 or so, stepped up to say that he and some Manhattan backers had $1,000.-ooo to open a casino. But both...
On the first day of the Convocation of Canterbury in Westminster's Church Assembly Hall-presided over by the Archbishop, Geoffrey Francis Fisher-the divines were discussing the report of a church commission on the Ministry of Healing. The Venerable Maxwell Dunlop, 59, archdeacon of Aston, rose to express...
Archdeacon Dunlop proposed that a commission be established to determine whether the church believes in the existence of the Devil or not, and as he spoke, the lighting system flashed on and off frantically. But the convocation turned the proposal down cold. The Anglican Church Times was delighted that the...
BLOW FOR FREER TRADE was struck by President Eisenhower, who refused Tariff Commission's recommendation to double 30% duty on umbrella frames. Boost would have aided four U.S. producers, who employ fewer than 500 workers and whose unit sales are running about 10% ahead of last year. It would...