Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Admitted that Sherman Adams had arranged an appointment for him to talk over his woolen-mill difficulties with the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, but denied that Adams had exercised any influence "with these giant federal agencies where a little man gets lost without some kind of guidance...
¶ Recalled telling Adams in late 1955 or early 1956 that his real estate holding company, the East Boston Co., was "really being picked on" by the Securities and Exchange Commission, but denied that SEC pressure lessened as a result. Goldfine denied flatly and specifically that Sherman Adams had ever...
"No Fee - For Free." It was Lawyer Robb who laid down the major strategic lines: 1) make Goldfine appear as a simple, innocent, underdog type being persecuted by a powerful congressional subcommittee, and 2) permit Goldfine to answer only those questions that related, directly and demonstrably, to his relationships with...
* Neither law nor custom bars flying 48-star flags or even 13-star flags. In 1916 President Woodrow Wilson gave the U.S. Navy responsibility for planning changes in flag design. President Eisenhower will probably follow Wilson's executive order, hand the problem to the Navy, which in turn may...
But Herbert Hoover had also gone to Brussels, in a sense, as an honored house guest of the Belgian people. He went first to Brussels in 1914, a distinguished engineer, as head of the Belgian Relief Commission, which helped save the Belgian people from starvation in World War I. And...