Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dr. Van Waters told a special legislative commission studying penal laws the present law limits outside jobs to domestic work only.
...educators would doubtless hear more of Commissioner McGrath's proposal, as well as more about its forerunner, the recommendation of the President's Commission on Higher Education calling for doubled college enrollments by 1960 (TIME, Dec. 29, 1947). But last week Harvard Economist Seymour E. Harris interrupted with a question. If the U.S. was determined to send so many Americans to college, could it also provide the sort of jobs college graduates have come to expect? In a book called The Market for College Graduates (Harvard University Press; $4), Economist Harris answered his own question...
Harris estimated that if the President's commission has its way, the U.S. would have 15 million living college graduates by 1970. If the same percentage of graduates aim for the professions as in the past (about 65%), there would have to be, to accommodate them, two or three...
This week Philadelphia's Art Alliance put models and plans for 15 U.S. war memorials on display. The work of well-established firms selected by the U.S. Battle Monuments Commission,* they would be translated into stone within two years at military cemeteries in Britain, Europe, North Africa and the...
The commission's chief criteria had been "durability, dignity and beauty." There was no denying that the monuments they decided upon were on the conservative side. More modern ones, lacking classical associations, might have seemed to lack dignity as well. Among the best-planned and least assuming of those...