Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"We are confronted with a difficult problem, the solution of which is obscure. . . . If Congress approves, I shall despatch a commission to Haiti to review and study the matter. . . . I request Congress to authorize such a commission and appropriate $50,000."
Mr. Williams is a member of the board of directors of the National Conference on City Planning, a member of the board of governors of the American City Planning Institute, and served on the staff of the New York City Heights of Buildings Commission. He was sent abroad by the...
Conservation. "Three important questions. . . . Conservation of our oil and gas resources . . . conservation due to overgrazing on public lands . . . our reclamation policy, ... I have appointed a commission."
Law Enforcement. "It is the most serious issue before our people. . . . I have appointed a commission. . . . I am confident it will make a notable contribution." Major Hoover commissions now functioning?6; new Hoover commissions called for in his message?4.
Last summer a Michigan commission searched for the rest of the lost bodies. With the greatest difficulty 86 were found; eleven were left in France. Russian peasants were hostile, had to be bribed to reveal each grave. One town the Soviet Government, cooperating with the U. S., threatened to plow...