Word: commissionership
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...asked last February. Presumably because he is a member of the potent State Railroad Commission (which controls oil, also settles rail & bus disputes), perhaps because he disliked leaving his two colleagues a free hand, he delayed his decision. Up until last week he had not resigned his Commissionership. But he announced last week he would assume the presidency of Baylor next autumn...
Albert Carroll satirically skewered Chinese Actor Mei Lan-fang with elaborate gesture and thin, cracked voice. Another famed actor taken up was Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, who lately returned to Wanamaker's department store from the Police Commissionership of New York. Sings he (Philip Loeb...
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...