Sentences with phrase «first commissioner»

«Bess Myerson paved the way for countless women in New York and across the country, breaking down barriers and transcending government, politics, and pageantry by serving as not only the first Jewish Miss America, but the city's first commissioner of consumer affairs.

Appointed baseball's first commissioner in the wake of the 1919 Black Sox scandal, Landis was granted extraordinary power to «safeguard the interests of the national game of baseball.»

Myerson, a historic figure in the Bronx, was named Miss America in 1945, served as New York City's first commissioner of consumer affairs, and later as an adviser to presidents Lyndon B. Johnson, Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter.

Harvey W. Wiley, the first commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration, was against using the preservative, citing scores of health complications it could cause.

Dey, the first commissioner of the modern PGATour, was one of Nicklaus's mentors.

And Judge Landis became the first commissioner and immediately sentenced for life the White Sox players involved.»

Lawsky's nomination to become the department's first commissioner was approved by the Senate Insurance Committee this morning.

Also RIP Henry Diamond, the first commissioner of New York's Department of Environmental Conservation, who died Sunday at age 83 in Washington, D.C.

In 1969, Myerson was name New York City's first commissioner of consumer affairs under Mayor John Lindsay.

In 2004, after serving as Bloomberg's first commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection, where he succeeded in pushing through the Croton Filtration Plant, a controversial federally mandated facility that the administration sited under a popular Bronx park, he left to join American Stevedoring, a port operator, as its CEO.

In 1906 the governor of Massachusetts appointed a commission to study technical education and assigned the chairmanship to Carroll Wright, one of the greatest U.S. labor statisticians of all time, the first Massachusetts commissioner of labor, and the first commissioner of the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Patel was previously head of Wood Green academy in Wednesbury, near Birmingham, before taking the first commissioner role for the West Midlands in September 2014.

Frank Green was the first commissioner — he made it his mission to «promote» academies.