Word: commissioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Huey Long was an emerging backwoods politician, he acquired a secretary and a favorite in petite, 16-year-old Alice Lee Grosjean. Now 33 and an apparently permanent fixture on Louisiana's payroll, Alice Lee was last fortnight demoted from her $7,500 job as Collector of Revenue...
Other witness-of-the-week was Thomas R. (for nothing) Amlie, the Red rover from Wisconsin named by Franklin Roosevelt for the Interstate Commerce Commission, chiefly to provoke an airing of that sombre body (TIME, Feb. 6). Lumbering, loquacious Mr. Amlie conducted his self-defense before a Senate subcommittee with...
Last time anyone danced with the insurance business was in the 1905-06 Arm strong Life Insurance Commission Investigation, which started Charles Evans Hughes on his career. Exposing all sorts of shenanigans by insurance executives, Investigator Hughes cleaned up most old-time insurance evils, was responsible for revising New York...
Thereupon last week's look-see into insurance began to diverge from the Armstrong pattern of 33 years ago. The Armstrong Commission was primarily interested in insurance by itself; the Monopoly Committee is out to survey "the economic power inherent in the vast investment funds controlled by insurance companies...
These steps: would prevent the commission of a grave injustice. They would forestall the loss of the most popular and successful teacher in Fine Arts. But beyond this, they would possibly lead to fundamental changes in the department which, in view of its unparalleled resources, would make Harvard one of...