Word: commissionership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles James Rhoads, who shelved his lucrative partnership in Brown Bros. & Co. to take the $8,000 Commissionership of Indian Affairs...
Never before has a Peer of the Realm been called to the Police Commissionership...
...viewed with alarm-the fact that this news was under the RELIGION section. As stated, the Congress was to discuss such problems as "Should the colonization of the Jews in Palestine be based on socialistic or capitalistic methods?", "Should the policies of Great Britain, as pursued under the commissionership of Sir Herbert Samuel, be approved or a firmer stand taken, thus investing the power of leadership in a new executive?" It is clear that these as well as the many other issues brought up are of a purely social character, and as such they were rather to be classed under...
...immediate cause is that Gen. Chi wants Shanghai under his thumb. As it is, he thinks the Military Commissioner in Shanghai ought to be a man of his choice. Having tried peacefully to oust Gen. Ho from the Commissionership, he is now resolved to do it by force, which brings him into conflict with Gen. Lu, who is equally determined to preserve his influence in Shanghai...