Word: commissionership
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...Chief Oscar R. Ewing), resigned in June with the explanation: "I can no longer afford to remain in the Federal Government." Ewing had spent eight months searching for somebody able and willing to fill the job. In spite of all that, Earl McGrath is looking forward to the commissionership. A man who finds relaxation in flying planes and playing Mozart on the piano, he thinks he will have "a great opportunity for leadership." He was one of the authors of the report of the President's Commission on Higher Education (TIME, Dec. 29, 1947), calling for doubled college enrollments...
...London, to the High Commissionership vacated six months ago by retired Vincent Massey, went shy, brainy Norman Alexander Robertson, 42. He was a Rhodes Scholar at 19, then taught at the University of British Columbia and at Harvard before joining the Department in 1929. Since 1941 he has been its Under Secretary. His specialty: trade and economics...
...handle the real-estate affairs of a Chicago banking firm. One day he laughingly suggested a personal publicity gag to Mississippi's amiable Senator Pat Harrison: "Why not mention my name where it will be heard, as a dark-horse candidate for a District of Columbia commissionership?" Pat did. Somewhat to his horror, the dark horse was chosen...
Soon Salvationist Damon switched to soul-saving. His steady rise to the Eastern commissionership in 1935 paralleled the Army's own growth in the U. S.. Commissioner Damon, with piercing blue eyes, shock of white hair and resonant voice, played a leading role in that change. Since 1893 he has traveled 1,099,787 miles, spoken at countless thousands of meetings, made thousands of converts. Last month 900 sinners came forward at his meetings...
...Commissionership of Immigration, vacant since Daniel W. MacCormack died last January, the President appointed his cousin Laura Delano's husband, James Lawrence Houghteling, onetime vice president and treasurer of the Chicago Daily News...