Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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On June 25, 1952, Northfield received a letter from the Federal Trade Commission charging the company with mislabeling its products. A similar letter came on Dec. 12, 1952, still another on June 10, 1953. Goldfine testified before the House subcommittee that he thought Northfield had settled the FTC complaint then...
...seaway construction in the U.S., while Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway Authority managed all seaway work north of the border. Industrialist James L. Duncan and Civil Servant Bennett John Roberts ran Canada's power and seaway agencies; Duluth Banker Lewis Castle and New York City Park Commissioner Robert Moses were the U.S. chiefs. Because more of the work had to be done in Canada than the U.S., the Canadians will pay about 71% of the $440 million cost of the navigation works, collect the same proportion of all future ship tolls...
¶ Boxing Judge Bert Grant, 51, was indicted in New York City on charges of taking bribes up to $100 to influence his decisions in five bouts. His alleged briber: Manager Herman ("Hymie the Mink") Wallman, a Manhattan furrier and reputed front man for Frankie Carbo, the underworld commissar of...
The bigger the business, the better it has resisted the recession. The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission reported last week that in 1958's first quarter, small businessmen suffered the worst profits pinch. For manufacturers, the annual rate of after-tax profit to stockholders'...
Whether a customer wants to sell a house in which all the rooms are round (Previews sold one in New Jersey) or turn his farm into a tourist paradise, Previews' approach is the same. Previews gets 1½% of the asking price for handling a property on a three...