Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lodge's instructions flow from the State Department's Bureau of International Organization Affairs, headed by Assistant Secretary Francis O. Wilcox. For any U.N. question that can be foreseen, the Wilcox Bureau prepares "position papers," checks them out with other federal agencies concerned-Defense Department, Atomic Energy Commission...
Something euphemistically called the Georgia Commission on Education was only a one-stenographer state agency charged with inventing anti-integration laws until Redneck Governor Marvin Griffin decided that it was meant for bigger things. To the unexploited office of commission executive secretary he appointed an ambitious, possum-shaped Atlanta lawyer...
"VANDIVER FORCES BRING RACE-MIXING FARM TO GEORGIA." Vandiver is the front-running candidate for Governor and choice of anti-Griffin Democrats headed up by powerful U.S. Senator Herman Talmadge. Suddenly Attorney General Eugene Cook, until then an approvingly silent member of the commission board, threatened an investigation of T.V...
What Odds? In the long sag of peace, this leathery bantam spoiled for a mix. Everything Claire Lee Chennault did, he did belligerently. With two flying sergeants, he barnstormed the land in three precisely flown P12 pursuit planes - the famed "Three Men on a Flying Trapeze" of the air shows...
That Terrible Feeling. Last week, as FBI and SEC agents unraveled the details, no one felt worse-or needed more help-than the officers of the 23-year-old Manufacturers' Bank of Edgewater, N.J. The New Jersey State Banking Commission prepared to liquidate its assets, having ordered it closed...