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Word: commissior (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1925-1925
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...seven years each. Not more than three members may be of the same political party. President Wilson filled the Commission and, because of the long term of office, his appointees were a majority of the Commission until a few weeks ago. Some 8,000 complaints were made to the Commissior; in eleven years. It took action ir about 1,000 of these cases. Of late, Congress has got more and more in the habit of asking the Commission to make investigations. Recently, President Coolidge appointed W. E. Humphrey, onetime (1903-17) Congressman from Washington, his pre-Convention campaign manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Commission | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

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