Word: achesons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead, Oppy went back to his twin professorships in theoretical physics at the University of California and Cal Tech. On the side, he helped draft the Lilien-thal-Acheson report, since January has headed the committee of distinguished scientists advising the Atomic Energy Commission...
...charge is made that this nominee's connection with the Acheson-Lilienthal report, covering the problem of physical, atomic controls, disclosed a flaw in his reliability as a guardian of our atomic secrets because this report did not go to a finality in prescribing the ultimate security system demanded by the later Baruch report. It seems to me that this criticism is irrelevant, incompetent and immaterial...
...many months, Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson had been wanting to retire. The reason was simply that he was gradually going broke on his $12,000-a-year salary, which failed to cover entertaining on the scale required by his job. When Secretary Marshall took over, Acheson had consented to stay on only with the promise that he would be able to return to his law practice by July...
Last week Washington learned that Dean Acheson really meant what he had said. Those in the know were sure that his successor would be lean, articulate, 51-year-old Robert A. Lovett, onetime Assistant Secretary of War for Air and an old friend of Marshall...
Said Secretary Acheson: "This is a dangerous life and a dangerous world. I would choose a vigorous attempt to maintain the independence of Greece rather than let it go by default. ... If we do not accede to the [Greek and Turkish] requests ... for aid, there will be a strong conviction that a great deal of our professions are merely words...