Commerce Secretary Hodges seems to have been cast in the role of pacemaker for official Washington's economic forecasters.

This system is divided into a forest highway system, administered by the Secretary of Commerce, and a forest development road and trail system, administered by the Secretary of Agriculture.

Because administration of the forest highway system is a responsibility of the Secretary of Commerce with maintenance provided by the States and counties, this Development Program for the National Forests does not include estimates of the funds needed to maintain the forest highway system nor to construct the additions to it that are needed.

It became effective as a federal government standard on May 26, 2002 after approval by the Secretary of Commerce.

* 1996 – A United States Air Force airplane carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes in Croatia, killing all 35 on board.

* 1927 – First distance public television broadcast ( from Washington, D. C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover ).

* C. R. Smith ( Cyrus Rowlett Smith ), U. S. Secretary of Commerce under president Lyndon B. Johnson

* William H. Lash, former United States Assistant Secretary of Commerce

* James LeMunyon, former United States Assistant Secretary of Commerce

As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business under the rubric " economic modernization ".

After being elected, Harding rewarded Hoover for his support, offering to appoint him either Secretary of the Interior or Secretary of Commerce.

Washington wags referred to Hoover as " the Secretary of Commerce ... and Under-Secretary of Everything Else!

Many of Hoover's efforts as Commerce Secretary centered on eliminating waste and increasing efficiency in business and industry.

It has been suggested that Herbert Hoover was the best Secretary of Commerce in United States history.

Prior to the radio act of 1927, the Secretary of Commerce was unable to deny radio licensing or re-assign broadcast frequencies.

The Commerce Secretary headed the group of dignitaries accompanying Harding's body back to the capital.

By the end of Hoover's service as Secretary, he had raised the status of the Department of Commerce.

As Commerce Secretary, Hoover also hosted two national conferences on street traffic, in 1924 and 1926 ( a third convened in 1930, during Hoover's presidency ).

When Calvin Coolidge announced in 1928 that he would not seek a full term of office in the 1928 Presidential Election, Hoover became the leading Republican candidate, despite the fact Coolidge was lukewarm on Hoover, often deriding his ambitious and popular Commerce Secretary as " Wonder Boy ".

* 1946 – Harry Hopkins, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce ( b. 1890 )

* 1921 – Juanita M. Kreps, American economist, educator, & civil servant ; 24th United States Secretary of Commerce ( d. 2010 )

On February 25, 2005, the Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 was approved by the Secretary of Commerce.

But in July 1961 Governor Lindsay Almond and U. S. Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges announced that the route would not be changed.

Luther Hartwell Hodges, Sr. ( March 9, 1898October 6, 1974 ) was an American politician, who served as the 64th Governor of the state of North Carolina from 1954 to 1961 and as United States Secretary of Commerce from 1961 to 1965.

on December 13, 1979, when President Jimmy Carter sent a letter to the U. S. Senate and nominated Luther H. Hodges, Jr., who then currently held the title of Under Secretary of Commerce.

He accompanied Minister of Trade and Commerce James MacKinnon on a tour of Latin America in 1941 which established trade agreements with several nations.

In 1933, during a goodwill tour for the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, the radio station's sound engineer, who usually accompanied the band as its " master of ceremonies ," could not get away from the station.

This development was accompanied by an evolving view of Congress ' power under the Commerce Clause to regulate in the public interest.

These short, `` streamlined '' meetings usually are sponsored by local banks, Chambers of Commerce, trade associations, or other civic organizations.

Morning sessions included addresses by Ward Miller, Jr. of the U. S. Dept. of Commerce.

The Miss Rhode Island Pageant is sponsored by the Rhode Island Junior Chamber of Commerce as a part of the nation-wide search for the typical American girl -- a Miss America from Rhode Island.

The New York Central has pointed out that this control, if approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission, would give the combined C. & O. - B. & O. Railroad a total of 185 points served in common with the New York Central.

Obviously, the Interstate Commerce Commission will not force the New York Central to further curtail its commuter operations by giving undue competitive advantages to the lines that wish to merge.

The first, or double-step, type might also be called the `` railroad type '' because of its application to railroads ( and other transportation agencies ) by the Cost Section of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Since this book is concerned only incidentally with railroad rates, it will not attempt to analyze the methods by which the staff of the Interstate Commerce Commission has estimated out-of-pocket costs and apportioned residue costs.

The Prince visited the hospital of Operation Brotherhood, supported by the Junior Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, and fed rice to two pet elephants he kept at his residence at Pak Song.

The plan was supported by Frederick P. Fish, counsel for the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce.

Commerce was practiced to some extent in very early times, as is proved by the distribution of Melian obsidian over all the Aegean area.

The recent incarnations have been sponsored in part by the Chicago branch of the French-American Chamber of Commerce and by the French Consulate-General in Chicago.

It is hosted by the Consulate General of France in Houston, The French Alliance, the French-American Chamber of Commerce, and the Texan-French Alliance for the Arts.

Scanned from Equitable Commerce by Josiah Warren ( 1846 )

* ACCL-AMI / ACCL-AMO / ACCL-ABM / ACCL-OBM conferred by the Allied Council for Commerce and Logistics ( ACCL )

The Kanagawa treaty was followed by the United States-Japan Treaty of Amity and Commerce, the " Harris Treaty " of 1858, which allowed the establishment of foreign concessions, extraterritoriality for foreigners, and minimal import taxes for foreign goods.

Similar treaties were subsequently negotiated by the United Kingdom ( Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty, October 1854 ), the Russians ( Treaty of Shimoda, 7 February 1855 ), and the French ( Treaty of Amity and Commerce between France and Japan, 9 October 1858 ).

Thus, in the important Shreveport Cases of 1914, Hughes sustained a decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission voiding intrastate rates set by the Railroad Commission of Texas.

Financial services, the bulk of the services sector, are principally rendered by the National Bank of Eritrea ( the nation ’ s central bank ), the Commercial Bank of Eritrea, the Housing and Commerce Bank of Eritrea, the Agricultural and Industrial Bank of Eritrea, the Eritrean Investment and Development Bank, and the National Insurance Corporation of Eritrea, all majority owned by the government and ruling party.