Word: commissioners
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dent Lowell was a member. Professor Munro is now chairman of a Massachusetts commission which is to gather and collect data for the coming constitutional convention. In this general class the new Tariff Commission belongs. But it differs from all previous bodies of this sort in that it is not...
The duties of the Commission are to investigate in the widest way all matters relating to the tariff system and to the administration of the tariff laws. It is to consider the various ways of levying duties--specific and ad valorem, or a combination of these two; the revenue accruing...
The Commission, of course, has no legislative power whatever. The final decision on all matters coming under its purview must rest with Congress. The Commission can, of course settle no policies; those must be settled by the people, and by Congress as representing the people. But the difficulties which have...
Professor Theodore William Richards '86, winner of the Nobel Chemistry Prize of $40,000 in 1914, is a member of the International Commission on Atomic Weights. His many honors include degrees from 12 universities and membership in many of the leading scientific societies of Germany, Sweden, and the United States...
After the Boxer rebellion, Bowen went back to the Philippines in command of a field battery stationed in the More country. He later returned to the States, where he attended the Army Staff College. He received his captain's commission in March, 1911.