Word: commissionership
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...spiraling salaries and shrinking attendance, thought himself uniquely able to determine "the best interests of baseball" -- which meant using his bully pulpit to intimidate players, ignore the owners and realign teams against their wishes. He confused himself with his job. So last week did his media apologists. "The commissionership is dead," intoned the New York Times, which had not said similar last rites over the U.S. presidency when Nixon resigned...
...Libby resigned his commissionership with a near audible sigh of relief and became a professor of chemistry at the University of California at Los Angeles. He lives close to the campus with his wife and 15-year-old twin daughters, and is busy again on peaceful research...
...upped the value of his plant from $3,800,000 to $17,600,000. In 1953 he was elected president of the American Association of School Administrators, the top honor U.S. public schoolmen can bestow. But aside from these accomplishments, Derthick has another qualification for the commissionership: his middle-road record on the issue of integration...
...order to a once chaotic business. Its top job has traditionally gone to career men, and industry has violently opposed any attempt by politicians to make it a patronage plum. Current FDA boss is George P. Larrick, 54, who entered the service as an inspector, was promoted to the commissionership...
...Such a Pipsqueak As I." As George tells it, his biggest splash in the news was the result of his doing a favor for a friend. After he quit the commissionership in 1938 and went to work recouping his fortune in private business, he continued to serve as unsalaried waterboy, choreboy and funnyman, first to Franklin Roosevelt, then to Harry Truman. In 1946 Truman asked him to serve on the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. "I must have been off my rocker," George recalls. "I should have said, 'Why pick on me? Let's load this onto...