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Word: commissioners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the reform wave whipped up by the News Negro leaders saw their chance to improve the condition of Miami's ramshackle, malodorous Negro section on the city's east side. They stirred up such interest in the commission primary that election officials provided two extra, segregated voting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Black Ballots | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...crusade to disinfect Miami's city hall of political dysentery, the Miami News won a Pulitzer Prize. Miami got a new mayor and, this week, a new city commission. In last week's primary for the commissioners, a lot of Miami Negroes got something they never had had before: a vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Black Ballots | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

At Harvard he will have a roving commission without formal allegiance to any one faculty. He will probably be concerned with both the Department of English and the School of Education, giving no formal courses, but making himself available to students for informal instruction. He will be an associate of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivor Armstrong Richards to Be New University Lecturer | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

"The gift should be administered by a commission which would command the respect not only of our own people but of all people." Mr. Neylan named Cordell Hull, Henry Morgenthau, Charles Evans Hughes, Herbert Hoover, James H. Perkins (National City Bank).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Neylam Plan | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Of the Individual players, the Sophomore have shown themselves extraordinarily capable, in contrast to Dartmouth's almost entirely Senior lineup. George Hartford, continually defending the net against the most severe of the opponents' drives, has aired in nearly every moment of action, and has served to holster up the defense...

Author: By Richard England, | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/2/1939 | See Source »

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