Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late in 1918, shortly after the Armistice, a young Finn appeared in London, sought out Herbert Hoover, then chairman of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, and appealed to him for food for his starving, war-torn country. Impressed by the facts presented, Mr. Hoover not only arranged to get...
"When I see statements that the Germans during 1940 will have as many as 400 U-boats in commission and that they are producing these vessels by a chain-belt system, I wonder if they are producing the U-boat captains and crews by a similar method. If so, it...
> (From a test to rate an individual's attitude toward any institution) Q.: "This institution 1) is the most beloved of institutions, 2) is necessary to the very existence of civilization, 3) gives real help in meeting moral problems, 4) will destroy civilization if it is not radically changed...
> U. S. public opinion refuses to accept railroads as monopolies although, perversely, it approves having the Interstate Commerce Commission regulate them as such.
Promptly from Mr. Willkie to the news services went an angry reply: Commonwealth & Southern had offered a year ago to pay up to $60 for Consumers stock, said he. Both SEC and the Michigan Public Utilities Commission had ruled that it could buy the stock at book value.