Word: commissioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, 58-year-old Leland Olds found these old words still echoing in the ears of Congress. In the years since, he had risen to a position of power. As the dominant member of the Federal Power Commission for the past ten years, he had toughened Government regulation of...
President Truman rushed to the defense of his nominee with a sharp letter to Subcommittee Chairman Ed Johnson of Colorado. "The powerful corporations subject to regulation by the commission," wrote the President, "have not been pleased with Mr. Olds." Colorado's tart old Democrat Johnson replied that subcommittee members...
Marc Blitzstein, under a Koussevitzky commission, found these in "The Little-Foxes" by Lillian Hellman, and he calls the product "Regina." The play deals with a decadent, bickering Southern family which breaks to pieces over an unscrupulous money deal. The composer has worked into this a ball with many Southern...
Meanwhile, the State Insurance Commission is considering a plan to provide cheaper compulsory insurance rates on cars not driven by persons under 25 and not used for business. The rates on drivers over 25 would be reduced seven and a half per cent, while the rates on business vehicles and...
Potentially, the Harvard community could muster enough votes to elect a representative to the Cambridge City Council and to the Cambridge School Council in the coming election, Edward A. Crane '35, chairman of the Cambridge Election Commission told the CRIMSON last night.