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The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.
six days after war was declared he appointed Raymond Fosdick chairman of the Commission on Training Camp Activities ( the CTCA ).
Even so Fosdick, as the new Chairman of the Commission on Training Camp Activities, encountered strong and vociferous opposition.
progress, or lack of it, toward civil rights in the 50 states is reported in an impressive 689-page compilation issued last week by the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.
The matter may seem a small thing to some people, I know, but it's a very good start on the road to Totalitarianism The Commission has posted signs in Washington Square saying:
Whoever, in the United States or elsewhere, pays or offers to pay, or promises to pay, or receives on account of services rendered or to be rendered in connection with any such claim, compensation which, when added to any amount previously paid on account of such services, will exceed the amount of fees so determined by the Commission, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than twelve months, or both, and if any such payment shall have been made or granted, the Commission shall take such action as may be necessary to recover the same, and, in addition thereto, any such person shall forfeit all rights under this Title.
The action of the Commission in allowing or denying any claim under this title shall be final and conclusive on all questions of law and fact and not subject to review by the Secretary of State or any other official, department, agency, or establishment of the United States or by any court by mandamus or otherwise.
The Commission may in its discretion enter an award with respect to one or more items deemed to have been clearly established in an individual claim while deferring consideration and action on other items of the same claim.
Provided, That nothing in this provision shall be construed to limit the life of the Commission, or its authority to act on future agreements which may be effected under the provisions of this legislation.
The Interstate Commerce Commission will commence its deliberations on the proposed C. & O. - B. & O. merger on June 18.
With the existence of these many factors, some of them variable, it obviously has never been and is not now possible for the Commission to make assignments of AM stations on a case-to-case basis which will insure against any interference in any circumstances.
President Truman's Commission on Higher Education tended to take a liberal, expansionist position, while President Eisenhower's Committee on Education Beyond the High School was slightly more conservative.
An example of a more definite class bias is noted in proceedings of the Commission on the Financing of Higher Education sponsored by the Association of American Universities and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation.
The City Planning Commission on Tuesday approved agreements between two redevelopers and the Redevelopment Authority for the purchase of land in the $300,000,000 Eastwick Redevelopment Area project.
the Commission on Race and Housing concluded that `` there is no reason to believe that real estate men are either more or less racially prejudiced, on the whole, than any other segment of the American population ''.
Recent studies by the Commission on Race and Housing and others, however, point to a vast complex of factors that often do not warrant this conclusion.
In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

Commission and Status
It was formed in 1937, and later became part of the United Nations as the Commission on the Status of Women.
* General Commission on the Status and Role of Women ( Chicago ) ( GCSRW )
** In the U. S., the President's Commission on the Status of Women issues its final reports to President Kennedy.
The UNCHR was established on 10 December 1946 at the first meeting of ECOSOC, and was one of the first two " Functional Commissions " set up within the early UN structure ( the other being the Commission on the Status of Women ).
Since 2006, the forest has been used as an open air music venue as part of the Forestry Commission nationwide Forest Tour, with acts such as The Zutons, The Feeling, Status Quo and Jools Holland playing in a forest clearing.
*( 1996 ) Kinalamten Pulitikat: Sinenten I Chamorro: Issues in Guam's Political Development: The Chamorro Perspective: The Political Status Education Coordinating Commission.
She has also previously served on the Status Commission and the Board of Education for the USVI.
Concerned about reports of sexual assault and illegal stage fees, in 2006 San Francisco's Commission on the Status of Women recommended a ban of private rooms and booths at adult clubs in the city.
However, a majority of dancers at the Commission on the Status of Women's meetings and San Francisco Board of Supervisors ' meetings protested against these efforts, fearing for their income and claimed that these rooms are safer than other venues.
Between 1967 – 1970 she was a commissioner on the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, published in 1970.
In 1967 she was named to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada and co-authored the report published in 1970.
* Congressional Research Service, 9 / 11 Commission Recommendations: Implementation Status, Dec. 2006
Many countries have specific bodies tasked with looking at equality of opportunity issues ; in the United States, for example, it is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ; in Britain, there is the Equality of opportunity committee as well as the Equality and Human Rights Commission ; in Canada, the Royal Commission on the Status of Women has " equal opportunity as its precept.
* The Royal Commission on the Status of Women reports to Parliament
She represented India at United Nations Commission on Status of Women for five years ( 1984 – 1989 ).
She represented India on the U. N. Commission on Status of Women for five years ( 1984 – 89 ).
The recipients are selected by a special committee comprising the presidents of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council and the chairs of the Commission on Human Rights, the Commission on the Status of Women, and the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights.
Dunn was chair of the Washington State Republican Party from 1981 to 1992 and twice a delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women ( 1984 and 1990 ).
In reaction to such findings, by 1961, President John F. Kennedy was under pressure to establish a President's Commission on the Status of Women.
However, she agreed to be the Chairperson of the President's Commission on the Status of Women, which was held from 1961 until 1963.
President Kennedy implemented two Commission recommendations that established an Interdepartmental Committee on the Status of Women and a Citizens ' Advisory Council on the Status of Women, composed of twenty private citizens appointed by the President.

Commission and Women
The Act aims to provide 3-tier system of Panchayati Raj for all States having population of over 2 million, to hold Panchayat elections regularly every 5 years, to provide reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Women, to appoint State Finance Commission to make recommendations as regards the financial powers of the Panchayats and to constitute District Planning Committee to prepare draft development plan for the district.
" Bearing Witness: Women and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa.
In 1995, Madam Louise Arbour was appointed as President of a Commission of Inquiry, under the Inquiries Act, for the purpose of investigating and reporting on events at the Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario, following allegations by prisoners of abuse.
As a result of the report of the Commission of Inquiry into Certain Events at the Prison for Women in Kingston, the facility was closed in 2000.
She has been honored with various awards, including the Champion of Democracy Award from the National Women's Political Caucus ; the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award from the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession ; and the Rosa Parks Award from the American Association of Affirmative Action.
* Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
The presidential debates were initially moderated in 1976, 1980, 1984 by the League of Women Voters, but The Commission on Presidential Debates ( CPD ) was established in 1987 by the Republican and Democratic parties.
In November 2000, NetStar Communications Inc. ( later renamed CTV Specialty Television Inc .) was granted approval for a television broadcasting licence by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) for a national English-language Category 1 specialty television service called Women ’ s Sports Network, described as a service to be " consisting exclusively of sports programming featuring female athletes and participants.
Men's rights groups in India have called for the creation of a Men's Welfare Ministry and a National Commission for Men, as well as the abolition of the National Commission for Women.
The ' National Commission for Women ' ( NCW ) has also proposed No 9.

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