Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Electrical Power Regulation. "The Federal Power Commission is now composed of three Cabinet officers. . . . I recommend that authority be given for the appointment of full-time commissioners to replace them. . . . The authority of the commission should be extended to certain phases of power regulation. About 90% of all power generation and distribution is intrastate. . . . There are cases, however, of interstate character beyond the jurisdiction of the states...
Radio Commission. "I recommend the reorganization of the Radio Commission into a permanent body. The requirement that the commissioners should be appointed from specific zones should be abolished...
Muscle Shoals. "Such parts of these plants as would be useful and revenues from the remainders should be dedicated for all time to the farmers of the U. S . I do not favor the operation by the government of either power or manufacturing business, except as an unavoidable byproduct. ... [I...
"No report of the plans of the Tercentenary Commission would be complete were we to forget our debt to President Lowell," said Herbert Parker '78 yesterday, chairman of the commission appointed by the governor to prepare plans for the tercentennial celebration of the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
"Mr. Lowell has been our constant adviser, ever willing to assist the commission in the preparation of plans where our knowledge of the historical field was limited, and his was complete. His assistance and wholehearted co-operation has in large measure made the report of the commission possible."